LSBUD, the UK’s leading online safe digging platform, surpassed four million searches in 2025, making it the most successful year in the organisation’s history.

In an Expert Focus article for WaterBriefing, Richard Broome, Managing Director at LSBUD, the UK’s leading online safe digging resource, discusses the contradictory state of safety within the water sector, detailing how to improve safety while balancing financial pressures.

South Staffs Water and sister company Cambridge Water have joined the membership organisation Linesearch before u dig (LSBUD) to help further protect assets in their networks.

Northumbrian Water has become the first company to sign a national data-sharing agreement as the NUAR (National Underground Asset Register) project is set to roll out across the country.

Northumbrian Water has developed a simple but innovative tool which helps measure the depth of underground water pipes.

BSI, the business standards company, has launched a new code of practice aimed at transforming the way data on underground utilities is captured, recorded, maintained and shared.

Ordnance Survey is supporting a new project for accurately locating and mapping the Kingdom of Bahrain’s underground utilities.

A new roadmap for quantum technologies setting out how UK businesses can lead the world in multi-billion pound industries over the next 25 years has flagged up potential applications in the water sector.