According to Everflow’s analysis of data from Market Operator Services Limited (MOSL), 60% of all non-household (NHH) water consumption in England now falls within regions the Environment Agency classifies as seriously water stressed.
The latest data market from MOSL shows that one in ten businesses now have smart water metering – the number of businesses with smart meters as at 4 August 2025 stands at 10.36% compared to 0.03% at market opening in April 2017.
After an extensive selection process, CGI has been chosen as the delivery partner for the new smart meter read hub.
Essex & Suffolk Water is working with its partners to bring smart water meters to Southend-on-Sea.
Northumbrian Water is set to replace 5,000 water meters across Blyth and Cramlington in an ambitious upgrade programme which starts this week.
Yorkshire Water is set to exchange 1.3 million existing water meters with smart meters, designed to provide service improvements, enhanced customer support and reduce leakage. Netmore, a leading global LoRaWAN network operator, has been selected as the lead partner to deliver the programme.
Alan Newman, Enterprise Manager, Utilities at customer experience management specialists Quadient, discusses how water companies can revamp their communications strategies to improve customer experience.
Portsmouth Water has extended the tender deadline for its AMP8/9 £136.5 million contract for Infrastructure Term Service and Smart Water Meter Installation
Portsmouth Water has gone out to tender with an AMP8/9 Contract for Infrastructure Term Service and Smart Water Meter Installation worth an estimated £136.5 million.
Severn Trent is set to install up to 1,800 smart water meters in the West Bridgford area of Nottingham to gain a better understanding of the water network.
James Sumsion, CEO of predictive water intelligence specialists Kohtari, says the water sector needs to take a giant leap forward, so that it can anticipate and act upon water quality issues - rather than merely react.
Ray Moulds, Sales Director at Flood Control International, takes a look at how automated sliding floodgates are supporting secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites.
With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, then environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”
ERG, the leading supplier of odour control systems and industrial gas cleaning & thermal systems, has been awarded the coveted King’s Award for Enterprise.