Scottish Water has gone out to tender with a sewage treatment works contract worth up to £30 million.

Severn Trent is forecasting totex savings across AMP6 of £670 million, equating to £260 million outperformance, around half of which it plans to reinvest in areas including improving water quality, enhancing security and assisting vulnerable customers, according to its preliminary annual results published today.

A new research study has found that almost all of England’s 200 chalk streams are in a “dismal state of decline” as the result of what the Sunday Times newspaper described as "a lethal cocktail of pollutants", including poorly treated sewage.

New research suggests that the impact of introducing household retail competition in the water sector could lead to pressure on existing cross-subsidies provided by incumbent companies to more vulnerable customers, if more higher margin households switch suppliers.

The majority of households in England would welcome choice over their water retail supplier but expect competition to deliver significant bill savings, the Consumer Council for Water (CCWater) has revealed.

The European Commission has set out its blueprint for cloud-based services and world-class data infrastructure to ensure science, business and public services reap benefits of big data revolution.