Anglian Water has been fined £300,000 for illegally discharging sewage into a watercourse that feeds into the Broads Special Area of Conservation in Norfolk, following a successful prosecution by the Environment Agency.

Andy Willicott is stepping down from his role as Managing Director at Cambridge Water and South Staffs Water respectively to pursue external opportunities and will leave the businesses before the end of the year.

Southern Water is nearing completion of a new concrete tank which can hold 600,000 litres of storm water –the tank will double the capacity of a Hampshire wastewater treatment works during intense rainfall.

Scottish Water has been served a civil penalty of £6,000 by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency for breaching a condition of their licence after a discharge of untreated sewage caused pollution of the Crossford Burn in Dunfermline.

Balfour Beatty has issued a trading update covering the period to 5 December 2024 - the international infrastructure group is expecting its order book to grow by over 5% in 2024 (FY2023: £16.5 billion).

NI Water has announced the completion of a £220K programme of repair work on a section of a major water main, which delivers water from Ballinrees Water Treatment Works to approximately 19,000 homes in Portrush, Portstewart and the wider Coleraine area.

Scottish Water is on track to hit a major milestone of 500,000 trees planted through its woodland creation programme by the end of this planting season. More than 245 hectares of the water company’s land will be planted with native woodland before March 2025.