Northern Ireland Water (NIW) was fined £15,000 plus £37 court costs at Antrim Magistrates’ Court on Monday 7 June 2010 for discharging poisonous and noxious substances into a County Antrim waterway.

Northern Ireland Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy has announced the appointment of four new interim non-executive Directors to the Board of NI Water (NIW).

In its latest trading update consulting and business services group Mouchel Group plc said its order book and pipeline both remain at around £2 billion. The update did not provide any profit or revenue targets.

Morrison Utility Services, the leading service provider in the UK and Ireland utilities sector, has published its end-of-year accounts for the year ended 31 March 2010 revealing a confirmed order book value of £1.5 billion, and up to £2.9 billion if existing contracts are extended.

Construction group Morgan Sindall has warned it will be “fighting hard to stand still” for the next two years as a result of cuts in public sector spending on construction.

Yorkshire Water has announced more upgrades as part of  its £60 million programme of work to maintain and modernise reservoir sites across the region.

Monsal, the UK’s leading advanced digestion technology business that turns waste into renewable energy, has secured £14 million of expansion capital from Waste Resources Fund L.P (WRF), managed by FourWinds Capital Management, an investment management firm that specialises in natural resources and commodities.

Modern Water plc has announced its Interim Results for the six-month period ended 30 June 2010.

MITIE Group PLC Group has acquired the integrated Facilities Management (FM) business of Dalkia in Ireland.

Balfour Beatty has published its preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2008.  The company said that the results showed strong progress, demonstrating the resilience of its financial model.