Data released today shows storm overflow performance in 2025 was the best ever, with the total number of spills from Anglian Water’s storm overflows reduced by more than 60% and the total duration of all spills reduced by more than 80%% compared to 2024.
Severn Trent is set to return with its Big Boost for Leicester event tomorrow to connect people with employment opportunities, live vacancies and hands on support.
Nestlé Waters & Premium Beverages (NW&PB) has achieved an industry leading milestone in global water stewardship, becoming the first food or beverage company worldwide to secure 100 per cent certification of all its 39 bottling sites to the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) Standard. Two sites – Buxton, UK and Tunuyan, Argentina, achieved Platinum certification, the highest level available.
Thames Water engineers have unearthed a half kilometre wall of congealed fat lurking beneath the roads outside Heathrow Terminal 5, a blockage big enough to stretch between two airport terminals.
Storm overflow spills in the village of Altarnun in Cornwall are reducing following new engineering work by South West Water.
Northumbrian Water Group water companies have repaired more that 17,700 water leaks in the past year.
Anglian Water has reached a significant milestone with a record number of more than 500,000 customers now supported through its free Priority Services Register (PSR) – and the numbers are continung to rise.
Uisce Éireann has delivered the first phase of improvement works at Grand Parade Pumping Station in Cork, with phase one completed on schedule.
Yorkshire Water is investing £16.8 million at Haisthorpe Water Treatment Works, to create a nitrate removal plant that will enhance the reliable, sustainable, high quality drinking water provided to customers across East Yorkshire.
Julia Pyke, former Joint Managing Director of the Sizewell C nuclear power project, has been appointed Executive Chair of the infrastructure advisory Agilia Infrastructure Partners - she joins Agilia on 2nd April 2026.
Ray Moulds, Sales Director at Flood Control International, takes a look at how automated sliding floodgates are supporting secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites.
With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, then environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”
ERG, the leading supplier of odour control systems and industrial gas cleaning & thermal systems, has been awarded the coveted King’s Award for Enterprise.
Welsh Water’s new artificial intelligence-driven tool, ORAI, has been shortlisted for three categories at the prestigious British Data Awards 2026 – underscoring the company’s commitment to using cutting-edge technology to deliver better outcome for customers.