United Utilities latest financial results for the year ending 31 March 2009 show underlying pretax profit up 12% at £532M, with underlying operating profit up by 10% to £742M and a revenue increase of 3% to £2.435bn.
Thames Water, the UK's largest water and sewerage company, has described its latest annual figures as reflecting its “best-ever operational performance and solid financial results”.
May Gurney have outlined ambitious plans to slash emissions by 50% over the next three years as part of its commitment to meet the needs of a low-carbon economy and, ultimately, to be carbon neutral by 2014.
Anglian Water won a string of awards from Business in the Community last week, confirming it as one of the country’s most community-minded and environmentally conscious companies.
Despite the increasingly difficult economic environment, Welsh Water, the not-for-profit company owned by Glas Cymru, has reported a year of continued good progress in operational and environmental performance and in customer service, raising its 'customer dividend' to £21 per customer.
Stormsaver, the UK’s leading designer and manufacturer of rainwater harvesting systems, has secured their largest individual commercial contract worth £140,000.
A scheme to protect the community of Lower Lancaster from flooding has taken joint first place in the Community Award category of the Institution of Civil Engineers’ (ICE) North West Awards 2009.
Southern Water is to start work on a multi-million pound wastewater infrastructure project in Ashford.
An ancient Cumbrian river - left dry by water engineers almost 100 years ago - is set to trickle back to life once again.
Ofwat has appointed the fourth new entrant to supply both water and sewerage services to household customers (making five new entrants in total).
Enpure Ltd and Clean TeQ Water Ltd have announced a collaboration agreement to bring Clean TeQ Water's Moving Bed Ion Exchange-based nutrient removal technologies to water utilities across the UK.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.
ABB has launched AquaMaster+™, a digital platform for smart water network management, designed to help water utilities monitor, analyze and manage their water networks, preventing pipeline water losses and optimizing operations.
Craig Nienaber, Business Development Manager for Safe Access Solutions (SAS) at HUBER Technology, explores why the company is seeing a growing level of interest in its safe access solutions for critical infrastructure providers, including their application in wastewater treatment assets.