Following clarification with Sutton and East Surrey Water, Waterbriefing would like to confirm that the company has not yet made any decision to either accept or reject Ofwat’s Final Determination.

Costain’s upgrade of a Rugby sewage treatment works is helping Severn Trent Water generate more energy from waste.

Hard work and enthusiasm will be the key to securing a job at Thames Water, so CEO Martin Baggs told the firm’s new trainees this week.

South East Water’s programme to install domestic water meters is continuing - the company will be fitting more than 9,000 meters for customers in Aldershot and surrounding villages, where one is not already installed.

The GMB and other unions have suspended industrial action in Northern Ireland Water while a new offer in the pensions dispute is put to members.

 Security kiosks from Technocover, pre-built and pre-fitted with M&E services, have saved build time on Wessex Water’s new ‘Water Supply Grid’.

Planning officers at  Lancashire County Council have recommended refusing two applications by oil and gas company Cuadrilla to explore for shale gas ahead of a meeting next week by the county council's Development Control Committee to consider them.

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)

South East Water has reported that progress in Maidstone to upgrade an old water main has been slower than expected after large underground concrete blocks and old utility services were discovered this week.