Peter is currently a Principal Consultant at the Water Research Centre (WRc) in the UK and heads up its Pollution Reduction team which specialise in wastewater networks. He has been in the wastewater industry for over 36 years working as a contractor doing sewer surveys before joining Wessex Water as their Private Sewers Transfer Manager. He joined WRc in 2009 and has an extensive background in drain and sewer management, sewer condition assessment, drain and sewer rehabilitation and as an expert witness in drainage disputes. He has authored several publications relating to household drainage including the Drain Repair Book and the Manual of Drain and Sewer Cleaning.

He is currently working on research aimed at reducing the numbers of spills from storm overflows, sewer blockages and pollution incidents to help improve our environment.

He delivers technical training as part of the WRc Academy team in drain repair and sewer condition assessment with training delivered in exotic places such as Singapore, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka and Portugal.

He was recently awarded the Pride in the South West Award by the Institute of Water in 2023 for his work in explaining the need to maintain our drains and sewers with his 3P’s flushing message, only Pee, Poo and Paper. He sits on the Technical Committees of the National Association of Drainage Contractors and UK Society of Trenchless Technologies.

Outside of work he’s a keen cyclist and a Bristol Bears rugby fan