The Blueprint for Water environmental coalition has suggested that some of Ofwat’s Final Determination decisions on the water companies’ AMP7 Business Plans in the 2019 Price Review risk undermining significant gains made by the water industry.

Anglian Water has highlighted some of its upcoming investment commitments as its five year AMP6  £5 billion business plan begins, including the introduction of a new social tariff.

In an Expert Focus article for Waterbriefing, Steve Morris, Managing Director of Huber Technology UK examines how the extended supply chain is looking to meet the requirements of both the water companies and their Tier 1 alliance contractors in the upcoming AMP6 investment programme.

Ofwat has announced that all but one company has accepted its final determination, which set limits on the prices companies can charge between 2015 and 2020.

Sutton and East Surrey Water has today announced that following careful consideration, it has accepted Ofwat’s decision on the level of customers’ water bills from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2020.

Severn Trent Plc has today announced that Severn Trent Water has accepted the Final Determination for the period 2015-2020 published by Ofwat on 12 December 2014.

Sutton and East Surrey Water has accepted Ofwat’s Final Determination on the company’s  AMP6 Business Plan for 2015 – 2020. (Editorial correction: This story has now been updated)

Portsmouth Water has written to the water industry regulator confirming its acceptance of Ofwat’s Final Determination for its AMP6 Business Plan.

Major improvements proposed by South West Water for its Camels Head Sewage Treatment Works in Plymouth will now go ahead following Ofwat’s AMP6 Final Determination.

The GMB trade union are calling for the water companies to be taken back into public ownership and Ofwat to be scrapped, describing the current structure of the privatised companies and the regulator as "a costly failure."