But the last audit produced by the EA into the company’s self monitoring in 2017 – according to the FoI – marks each audit area as “not assessed”. The summary notes explain this is because the agency takes a “light touch” approach. No audits have been produced by the EA since then into UU, according to the FoI results. These days there are 13 boreholes and water is extracted from the ground at the point of need. It means water can be extracted and bottled in a matter of minutes, William said. The water is tapped from a "really resilient gravel aquifer" which showed no signs of drying up even in the middle of last summer's drought.

So, what are you waiting for? Be sure to try our new Apple and Pear and Apple and Rhubarb flavours and let us know what you think! We’re sure they’ll become a new favourite in no time. Smith said: “Allowing water companies that have powerful financial incentives to exaggerate performance to monitor themselves was a massive risk that needed effective measures to ensure integrity both within the companies and the Environment Agency, which is clearly highly vulnerable to corruption in many ways.” I get a good feeling about being able to be in the mix," William said. "I'm very proud that we are a Welsh company and independent." He added: "I always had a burning desire to create a business. You've got to see farming as a business and businesses diversify."

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According to the FoI data, 36% of audits over the past 13 years were not carried out or are inexplicably missing from records.

The EA audits contribute to the star rating they are given for environmental performance by the watchdog and inform the industry regulator Ofwat on issues of price review, penalties and rewards. The EA budget was more than halved by the Conservative Government over a decade and staff have complained they cannot do their jobs properly as a result.It's tempting to see Radnor as a little independent fighting its way among the global players. It's easy to see how that image is created by the fact that Heartsease is slap bang in the middle of Wales and William assures me he can's see anything or anyone for miles around from his office. This cookie is set by Rubicon Project to control synchronization of user identification and exchange of user data between various ad services. He told his dad John he was off to London but his father had another suggestion: why not try and sell the water they were all drinking from the Heartsease borehole? And so Radnor Hills Water was born.