United Utilities asked customers in parts of Bolton to boil their water yesterday, following what were described as “complications” on the local water network.

Jacopa has installed rugged Bosker overhead trash raking systems to protect vital assets at Thames Water’s massive Deephams wastewater treatment works.

The Government has set out areas to be excluded from underground fracking activities via draft regulations that define the protected areas in which fracking will be prohibited.

South East Water has published its Annual Performance Report for 2014-15 outlining how it has performed on a range of measures to ensure customers are receiving a good level of service.

Wastewater solutions and services provider Jacopa is reporting increasing interest in grit removal solutions as water service companies seek to leverage the resources that their sites produce.

Today sees the launch of a new dedicated website for Northumbrian Water Essex & Suffolk Water for customers and other stakeholders to find out more about what each water company is doing and how it is performing.

United Utilities has gone out to tender with an AMP6 contract worth £1.2 million for leak detection apparatus for plastics.

Anglian Water has gone out to tender with a contract for its AMP6 Water Resource East Anglia Project worth £4.2 million.

Scottish Water has awarded a framework contract for the provision of Ductile Iron pipe and fittings worth an estimated £18 million to Chesterfield-based firm Electrosteel Castings (UK) Ltd.