Following publication of the Environment Agency’s stringent new requirements for reporting on sewer overflows, water companies are under urgent pressure to quantify, report, and mitigate events caused by groundwater infiltration, explains Ryan Pearson, head of strategy at Metasphere, a Grundfos company.

The Environment Agency has published updated guidance for water companies on preparing their Drainage and Sewerage Management Plans (DWMPs).

Southern Water has launched its first ever 25-year Drainage and Wastewater Management Plan (DWMP), which sets out how billions of pounds of investment could be spent on improving how the water company captures and treats wastewater.

Thames Water has published a new co-created drainage and wastewater management plan which will ensure a resilient and sustainable wastewater service that is fit for the future. 

Ofwat has written to wastewater company chief executives saying that more work is needed on their draft Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans (DWMPs) submitted to the regulator in June, including further development of their proposals for reducing combined sewer overflow (CSO) discharges.

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water has launched a 10 week consultation as part of the development of its long-term drainage and wastewater management plan.

James Heath, Chief Executive Officer at the National Infrastructure Commission, has set out the approach the Commission is taking to its ongoing study on surface water flooding, together with potential areas the NIC is likely to make recommendations on, including governance, performance standards and investment levels.

Regulators for the water companies in England and Wales have issued guiding principles for the water industry in drawing up drainage and wastewater management plans (DWMPs).

Following September 2018’s publication of Water UK’s Framework for the production of Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans, Water Briefing asks Atkins’ wastewater management experts Gian Illari and Jeremy Jones what this means for the UK’s water industry now, and in the years ahead.

Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has produced a first of its kind framework that will enable water companies across England and Wales to strengthen drainage and environmental resilience through the production of Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans (DWMPs).