Yorkshire Water has been ranked as the highest water company, and the second best UK utility company for customer satisfaction in a survey carried out by the Institute of Customer Services.
Irish Water has been granted a foreshore licence for the marine site investigation works to progress the development of a new wastewater treatment plant for Arklow.
Servelec Technologies has been awarded a significant contract with Affinity Water, the UK’s largest water-only supplier, to replace their regional telemetry System with a new SCOPE SCADA system.
Severn Trent Water is considering its strategy for above and below ground capital works, services and goods for future regulatory periods including AMP7 from large capital projects to smaller scale repair and maintenance.
Some of the world’s biggest businesses and public sector organisations are using their influence to drive sustainability improvements throughout their supply chains.
VSBW, the joint venture between Boskalis Westminster and VolkerStevin, has been appointed as the main contractor for the marine civil engineering stage of the Port of Dover’s flagship Dover Western Docks Revival (DWDR) development.
Scottish Water is to begin a £1.3 million programme of sewer upgrade work across Edinburgh in the coming days.
Irish Water has completed an upgrade to the Smear Water Treatment Plant. The investment at the plant included improvements to the treatment of the raw water at Lough Gowna which will assist in the reduction of Trihalomethanes (THMs) formation in the water supply.
South Staffs and Cambridge Water have launched a customer-wide study on household water use in order to understand the needs of its customers and plan future water resources.
AD operators and water companies with anaerobic digestion facilities seeking to cut costs and optimise their operational processes are looking with increasing interest at technology which can reduce maintenance costs by up to 80%.
bNovate has launched BactoCloud, a secure cloud-based platform that connects and manages its BactoSense instruments, enabling real-time monitoring and optimization of microbial water quality.
Amiblu, a global leader in Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) pipe systems for wastewater, stormwater, drinking water, irrigation, hydropower, and industrial applications, has announced the appointment of Martyn Turton as its Sales Director for the UK & Ireland, driving strategic market development in the infrastructure and water sectors, effective immediately.
As a project manager at Metasphere, a Grundfos-owned remote telemetry company at the cutting edge of innovation, Fey McHarg, has witnessed firsthand how the intelligent harnessing of data, specifically through the data-as-a-service model, is fundamentally reshaping and revolutionising the water sector.

Attendees at next month’s National Civils Show, Floodex, National Drainage Show and Waterways Management on 26th and 27th November are set to benefit from an expert speaker line-up and the opportunity to visit a wide range of exhibitors all co-located in one place at Excel, London, one of the UK’s leading international exhibition and convention centres.