SSE Telecoms (SSET ) is looking for supply chain input to understand the potential of designing and developing a cable connection system suitable for use in introducing a fibre optical cable into live potable water mains in the UK.

Laing O’Rourke will work with Thames Water on a £123 million project to ensure Beckton sewage works can cope with London’s growing population - it currently treats the wastewater of almost 4 million Londoners.

United Utilities has gone out to tender with an AMP7 sewer cleaning services framework contract worth up to £135 million in total.

Property consultants and chartered surveyors firm Fisher German has won the contract to act as land agents on Anglian Water’s strategic pipeline scheme - one of the largest strategic water infrastructure projects the UK has ever seen.

Yorkshire Water and Suttons Tankers have begun work on a 10-year contract worth up to £60 million that will deliver efficient sludge transportation across the region.

Southern Water has gone out to tender with an AMP7 contract for meter reading and associated services – with potential extension options to AMP8 – worth an estimated £12 million.

Thames Water has awarded a number of MP7 construction work contracts for the delivery of its AMP capital programmes for infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects, potentially extending to AMP8, worth up to an estimated £700 million in total.