Royal HaskoningDHV is to implement the UK’s first-ever Kaumera pilot plant to extract biopolymers from sewage sludge at United Utilities’ Blackburn wastewater treatment works (WwTW) as part of a groundbreaking circular economy-inspired project funded by Ofwat’s Innovation Fund.

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.

The Geospatial Commission has appointed Ordnance Survey (OS) to operate the National Underground Asset Register (NUAR), with the service transitioning to public beta in spring 2025.

The Environment Agency is asking people visiting the beach at Par in Cornwall and Combe Martin in Devon to talk to their beaches via the Hello Lamp Post Artificial Intelligence platform installed there.

People visiting or living near Lake Windermere, the River Ribble at Edisford Bridge or the River Nidd in Yorkshire are being asked to become citizen scientists by providing a range of information, about what they can see at the sites, to help shape future plans to improve water quality.

Technology company Siemens has introduced an innovative service that provides UK water utilities with the real-time water quality data and insights they need to get ahead of issues in drinking water networks and improve maintenance regimes.

Northumbrian Water, which supplies water to 2.7 million people in north-east England, is aiming for an 8% reduction in leakage in AMP8 - 2025-30 - with a long-term target of 55% by 2050, from its 2017/18 baseline.