Thames Water has recently completed over £50 million worth of infrastructure upgrades across North London to boost resilience, mitigate the risk of bursts and leaks and future proof its clean water supply.
United Utilities is reporting strong performance during AMP7 and outperformance on its regulatory contract with the announcement this morning of its full year results for the year to 31 March 2025.
Anglian Water has finished installing its initial rollout of 1.1 million smart meters across its region, in an investment worth £153 million. The milestone, which sees the company hit its AMP7 target ahead of time, means the water company is on track to deliver smart meters across its entire region by 2030.
Southern Water has awarded the CMDP joint venture between Costain and MWH Treatment a number of multi-million-pound contracts as part of the water company’s AMP7 investment programme.
Pennon Group has released an upbeat trading statement for the year ending 31 March 2024 – although the owners of South West Water, Bristol Water, Bournemouth Water and SES Water has acknowledged that it has had to reprofile its target of achieving overall 4 star EPA status from 2024 to 2025.
The first pipes have been laid in a new 57km water pipeline, which will support supplies to more than 200,000 people across the North East.
Thames Water is investing over £93 million to ensure future secure water supply for its Guildford customers.
Southern Water has gone out to tender with a major AMP7/8 contract for wastewater network services with an estimated total value of £466 million – the water company is anticipating that AMP8 will be the largest investment programme it has ever undertaken.
Northumbrian Water has started work on a circa £155 million investment in upgrading and futureproofing its water supply network across the south of County Durham and into the Tees Valley.
SES Water has reported an increase in revenue of 4% (£1.4m) to £33.7m (2021: £32.3m) and a reduction in operating profit of 49% to £4.0m (2021: £7.8m) in its latest results for the six months ended 30 September 2022.
Sulzer has launched a new global Center of Excellence (CoE) for Water Treatment Solutions - the CoE consolidates Sulzer’s wastewater treatment expertise in a unified and global manner.
“SAS (Surplus Activated Sludge) is a bit weird and can do odd things,” says Stuart Chatten, Lead Bioresources Technician at Whitlingham Water Recycling Centre (WRC), one of Anglian Water’s principal centres for processing sewage, serving a population of 400,000.
Owen Mace has taken over as Director of the British Plastics Federation (BPF) Plastic Pipes Group on the retirement of Caroline Ayres. He was previously Standards and Technical Manager for the group.
PureTec Separations, the Ledbury-based water treatment engineering firm, has appointed Dan Norman as its new Sales Manager – Water Process Systems, supporting the company’s continued growth in the UK and international markets.