Scottish Water has appointed engineering design consultancy Atkins to its marine survey services framework.

Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions (BBUS), one of the UK’s leading utility solutions providers, has received CEMARS (Certified Emissions Measurement and Reduction Scheme) certification from Achilles, the supply chain risk management group, as part of their carbonReduction programme.

Northern Ireland Water Ltd (NI Water) was fined £3,000 plus £31 court costs at Newry Magistrates’ Court on Monday for pollution offences. Last week the company received fines totalling £3,500 for two separate offences – both for making a polluting discharge to a waterway.

Scottish Water pled guilty yesterday at Oban Sheriff Court after sewage was allowed to spill into Tobermory Bay, and were fined £6,667.

South West Water  has started work on a  £1.2 million scheme to transform a former china clay quarry into a new reservoir supplying Cornwall.

Glas Cymru Cyfyngedig, the not-for-profit owner of Wales based utility Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water, has announced the appointment of Bob Ayling as Chairman Designate.

Leading European technical services provider Imtech, headquartered in Gouda in the Netherlands, has won orders worth over 175 million euro for Welsh Water’s forthcoming AMP5 programme and for work on the technology upgrade to the Crossness and Beckton Sewage Treatment Works in London for Thames Water.

Welsh Water has completed an extensive £2 million scheme that will tackle wastewater flooding affecting properties in the Upton area of Chester.