The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has set out how it estimated that nationalising the water industry would cost approximately £100 billion.

Anglian Water has confirmed that its shareholders have now injected £300 million of equity into the group.

Dwr Cymru Cyfyngedig (DCC) / Welsh Water, the largest water and sewerage company in Wales and the sixth largest operating in England and Wales, is inviting organisations in the wider water sector to register their interest in a major upcoming £667 million Design-Build-Finance scheme.

The National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) has launched a new interactive online tool alongside the latest Infrastructure Pipeline update, kicking off a new era of infrastructure delivery.

Wessex Water is inviting contractors and investors to register their interest in attending an in-person initial industry briefing and launch event scheduled for Tuesday 9th September 2025 to be held in central London for the £414 million (inc VAT) Poole Water Recycling and Transfer SRO.

South West Water is seeking supply chain engagement with contractors and investors in the £1 billion Cheddar 2 Reservoir project – the water company is planning to hold an initial industry briefing and launch event scheduled for Tuesday 9th September 2025, to be held at a central London venue.

Southern Water has secured an offer of a equity support package totalling up to £1.2 billion from Macquarie, comprising an initial binding £655 million with up to a further £545 million intended to be committed by December 2025.

A highly critical new report by the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee is warning that a failing water sector in which “water companies increasingly look like financial institutions rather than businesses servicing monopolised critical infrastructure” is in need of “root and branch reform”.

Water sector regulator Ofwat is currently considering a bailout proposal from a group of Thames Water’s existing investors, according to reports in a number of online and print news organisations this morning.

Correspondence released by the House of Commons Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee yesterday evening has raised even more questions for the Chair and CEO of Thames Water to answer about the water company’s financial affairs – and the Committee has now further extended its questions about their recent evidence to Environment Secretary Steve Reed and Ofwat Chief Executive David Black.