Southern Water’s AI-enabled smart sewer system led to more than 4,000 interventions in the past year, enabling its teams to remove blockages.

Upgrades to infrastructure by Southern Water paired with innovative new technology and automated intelligence have dramatically reduced storm overflows from Terminus Road in Cowes, Isle of Wight.

Anglian Water has gone out to tender with a major AMP8 contract for sewer level network monitoring sensors worth an estimated value of £140.4 million (inc VAT).

Thames Water has invested £20 million to make its sewers smart and prevent flooding and pollutions - 20,000 monitors across the Thames Water region have helped identify and remove 11,500 blockages between March 2021 – March 2024.

Southern Water is getting works get underway later this month in Whitstable, as AI technology is added to the utility’s underground network in an effort to cut storm overflows.

Northumbrian Water has started a ground-breaking £20 million project which is set to significantly reduce spills from storm overflows across Tyneside.

Southern Water is investing £15 million in artificial intelligence and 22,000 state-of-the-art monitors to dramatically cut the impact of fatbergs and other blockages that currently cause hundreds of pollution incidents every year.

Yorkshire Water is planning three innovative smart wastewater network pilots, which will better inform a systematic approach to the management of Yorkshire’s wastewater.