Atkins has been appointed by Severn Trent Water as one of five firms on its Sewerage Management Planning framework which will deliver around £50 million of investment to reduce flooding, pollution incidents and the company’s overall carbon footprint as part of its AMP6 investment programme.
More than 300,000 customers who had to boil their water after the cryptosporidium parasite was discovered in United Utilities water network will start to receive cheques in compensation in the post from today.
Southern Water has launched a new initiative to boost Bexhill’s bathing water quality - the company is taking action to help meet the requirements of tougher European bathing water standards which are now in force.
Elster Metering has won a contract worth £2.14 million jointly tendered by Portsmouth Water in collaboration with Sutton and East Surrey Water.
United Utilities has awarded a contract for meter reading services to Siemens PLC.
Wessex Water has awarded a contract for leakage detection services to RPS Environmental Management Ltd worth an estimated £3 million.
Thames Water is inviting suppliers to register with its IS Smaller Application Development Register - intended to support a separate framework from which major IS application development and system integration project work will be sourced worth more than an estimated £200 million over 5 years.
Imtech UK has announced that it has concluded a deal to refinance its business through an investment from private equity firm Endless LLP.
Italian-headquartered global construction group Salini Impregilo has won an EPC contract worth more than £375 million ($575 million) for the design and construction of the Nenskra hydroelectric project in the mountainous region of Svaneti, Georgia.
With effect from 1st September construction site managers throughout London will now be required to retrofit or replace old, polluting machinery in a world-first step to help clean up the capital’s air and reduce damaging emissions from diggers, bulldozers and related vehicles.
Amiblu, a global leader in Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) pipe systems for wastewater, stormwater, drinking water, irrigation, hydropower, and industrial applications, has announced the appointment of Martyn Turton as its Sales Director for the UK & Ireland, driving strategic market development in the infrastructure and water sectors, effective immediately.
As a project manager at Metasphere, a Grundfos-owned remote telemetry company at the cutting edge of innovation, Fey McHarg, has witnessed firsthand how the intelligent harnessing of data, specifically through the data-as-a-service model, is fundamentally reshaping and revolutionising the water sector.

Attendees at next month’s National Civils Show, Floodex, National Drainage Show and Waterways Management on 26th and 27th November are set to benefit from an expert speaker line-up and the opportunity to visit a wide range of exhibitors all co-located in one place at Excel, London, one of the UK’s leading international exhibition and convention centres.
Tackling leakage is one of the fastest and most cost-effective ways for utilities to bolster water security, writes Ben Crabtree, Product Line Director, Ovarro, revealing how the potential of smart technologies is being demonstrated around the world.