A new economic study is warning that water scarcity could cost the UK economy £25 billion over five years due to undelivered housing developments – a critical obstacle to meeting the government’s housing targets.

An intelligent monitoring system which has been successfully introduced by Scottish Water across rural locations in the Highlands and Islands, using IoT to gather essential data that helps keep the water network in Scotland safe, is set to be deployed at a further 300 sites.

Severn Trent has awarded contracts to smart metering and data company Itron and smart technology provider Connexin to help transform Coventry and Warwickshire into a smart water data region.

Thames Water’s digital team is celebrating after winning two awards: ‘data science project of the year’ and the ‘digital transformation project of the year’ at the UK IT Industry Awards in London.

In an Expert Focus article for WaterBriefing, Dr. Mikael Khan, Business Development Manager at Aqua Enviro discusses the rise of smart water technologies and the drivers behind its development into a market predicted to be worth billions of pounds annually.

In an Expert Focus article for Waterbriefing, Oliver Grievson of Z-Tech Control Systems and Water Industry Process Automation & Control discusses the key role instrumentation plays in the digital transformation of the water industry and the opportunities and challenges involved in getting it right.

Mike Strahand, Director of the Sensors for Water Interest Group and MD at Analytical Technologies Inc., takes a bird's eye look at the journey towards smart water networks.

Northumbrian Water is working with communications giant BT, to deliver a Smart Water project to help improve its network performance across the North East.

The Smart Water Networks Forum (SWAN) has announced that its annual flagship event will be hed in North America or the first time due to the booming regional interest in smart water technologies and rapid growth of the SWAN North American Alliance.

Southern Water has signed a landmark partnership agreement with the company behind Fawley Waterside on Southampton Water to make the planned intelligent city the world's first development with smart water systems built in from the outset.