The Environment Agency has gone out to tender with a waterway construction contract.worth up to £40 million.

Leading audit firm PwC  says that with the number of construction insolvencies likely to increase in 2012, major contractors must take a pro-active approach to managing risk in their supply chain.

United Utilities has put a five year £5 million framework contract out to tender for preliminary wind turbine surveys.

Scottish Water is about to start work on three major projects at waste water treatment works which serve more than a million people in the Glasgow and Paisley area.

Thames Water has announced that a huge project to increase the capacity of one of London’s major sewage works by fifty per cent is now half-way to being complete.

The China Investment Corporation (CIC), the country's sovereign wealth fund, has bought nearly 9%  of Kemble Water, the company which owns Thames Water.