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Similarly, where new infrastructure is required to provide water supplies for domestic use, planning authorities do not always consider the availability of water resources to be a material consideration, despite the real strain increased abstraction may place on riverine ecology or water bodies protected for nature conservation purposes. Section 41 of the Water Industry Act requires the water undertaker to provide a water supply to new development, but not if it has insufficient resources available or if it is believed that the supply to the new development would lead to unacceptable damage to a protected site.