Clause 11 - Power to provide for further exemptions
Water Bill [Lords]
5:00 pm
Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster, Conservative)
I hoped that the Government would seize on the opportunity to encourage trickle irrigation, rather than treat it like other sorts of irrigation. That was one of the purposes of the amendment. I take the Minister's point about prescribed industries being included in another part of the Bill, and I have no problem in withdrawing that suggestion, but I am sad that the Government have missed a trick with trickle irrigation. It would have been helpful to emphasise to those large-scale farmers who use more than 20 cu m of water a day that it is the way forward. The amendment would therefore have been a useful addition to the Bill.