Registration is now open for the Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival – which will see thousands of creative minds from across the globe coming together to find solutions to some of the topics that have been hitting the headlines recently.

NI Water has reached the mid-way point in its ongoing Trunk Mains investment programme across Northern Ireland. The main contractor for the Trunk Mains Framework as part of the Price Control six-year PC21 Business Plan (2021-27) is Farrans Construction, with WSP providing technical and support services.

Yorkshire Water will start work will this month at two sites across west Leeds and Bradford as part of a project to improve the water quality in Pudsey Beck by reducing storm overflow discharges.

Following Barhale’s appointment to Thames Water’s £250 million Developer Services Framework, the company is already spearheading essential works in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire – paving the way for key infrastructure and development schemes.

A £6.5 million Scottish Water project to improve the quality and resilience of supply for thousands of customers has been completed; a new Olympic swimming pool sized treated water storage tank near Patna in East Ayrshire is now supplying 6,500 customers after undergoing final testing.

Southern Water is piloting cutting edge technology to help reduce storm overflows and flooding in Kent and the Isle of Wight - new AI technology is being installed as part of the utility’s ongoing efforts to reduce storm overflows.

Yorkshire Water is investing £5.5 million in two wastewater treatment plants that will help to improve the water quality of the river Dearne and river Don.