The WRc Group is a company providing research and consultancy in water, waste and the environment in the United Kingdom.
[2] The Board had no laboratories and fulfilled its remit of providing research and advice on sewage treatment by outsourcing and conducting surveys.
The committee first met in January 1949 and finally reported in a 607 page paper Effects of Polluting Discharges on the Thames Estuary in 1964.
[2] In 1955 the WPRL moved to a purpose-built laboratory[6] in Elder Way, Stevenage, and here it is associated with the first systematic analyses of sewage treatment.
As part of the process a small offshoot, the Foundation for Water Research (FWR), was created and the Stevenage site was shut down.
Its remit was to promote, assist and support research into domestic, commercial, industrial and agricultural use of water obtained from all sources.
The WRB devised schemes such as one for a water grid in north east England which might also supply Sheffield and Chesterfield 200 miles to the south.