United Utilities has awarded a framework contract for debt collection agency services worth an estimated £19.47 million.
The contract covered a range of services for the provision of debt recovery activities on behalf of United Utilities, including affordability visits and telephony activities, trace and collect services, tertiary doorstep visits and live debt.
The following companies have all been awarded contracts under the framework:
Commercial Collection Services Ltd
Orbit Debt Collections Ltd
Pastdue Credit Solutions Ltd
Advantis Credit Ltd
Uniwater has acquired Hy-Ram Engineering, a specialist in tooling, products and hire for the water sector, based in Mansfield, England.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.

Southern Water has released film and images showing what it’s like to walk inside Hampshire’s expanded Yew Hill underground reservoir for the very last time, before it gets filled with water.
Hear how United Utilities is accelerating its investment to reduce spills from storm overflows across the Northwest.