Business Stream, Scotland’s largest provider of non-household water and waste water services, has appointed Charlene Wallace as director of customer operations as it prepares for the opening of a competitive water market in England.
Water industry regulator Ofwat has approved an application by Source for Business Ltd, part of South West Water, for a water supply licence under section 17A of the Water Industry Act 1991.
Ofwat’s charging working group, set up in January 2014 as part of the regulator’s work on the 2014 price review and in response to the Water Bill, met for the first time last week.
Water industry regulator Ofwat has set out its framework for resolving pricing disputes involving bulk supplies of water or sewerage services. In the run-up to the introduction of non-retail competition in 2017 the issue is of increasingly strategic importance to the wider water sector, not simply the parties concerned.
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.