According to provisional Met Office statistics released yesterday, July 2026 has been an exceptional month for the UK's climate statistics, with records challenged or broken for rainfall, temperature and sunshine.
Ofwat has gone out to tender with a contract to procure an Independent Monitor (IM) to monitor, assess and report South East Water's progress in delivering a turnaround in their operational performance and resilience with a total estimated value of £6 million including VAT.

United Utilities has awarded two contracts for specialist vehicles to support its AMP8 activities - a contract for 28 tankers worth c £3.45 million (excluding VAT) and a contract for 11 plankside tipper trailers worth £637,450.00 (excluding VAT).
NI Water has this morning formally launched the preliminary market engagement exercise for its proposed IF109 Integrated Partnerships Framework – which has an estimated total value of £12.6 billion including VAT.
Neal Edmonson, Client Director who leads the Water Networks team at BFY Group, one of Europe’s fastest-growing management consultancies, discusses what water can learn from energy's smart meter rollout.
Anglian Water is seeking supply chain input via an early market engagement exercise to explore an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Works Management Solution.
Following the Environment Agency’s announcement of drought across the East Anglian area, Essex & Suffolk Water is introducing a Temporary Use Ban, also known as a hosepipe ban, for customers across the entire supply area.
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water has thanked customers across mid and south Ceredigion, north Pembrokeshire and north Carmarthenshire for reducing their water use following the introduction of a Temporary Hosepipe Ban.
Anglian Water has gone out to tender with an AMP8 contract for debt collection services with an estimated value of £16 million including VAT.
Ofwat has gone out to tender with a contract for an Independent Monitor (IM) to provide independent monitoring, analysis and reporting in relation to Thames Water's turnaround programme, financial resilience and compliance with an estimated value of £15.6 million including VAT.
Enpure Ltd and Clean TeQ Water Ltd have announced a collaboration agreement to bring Clean TeQ Water's Moving Bed Ion Exchange-based nutrient removal technologies to water utilities across the UK.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.
ABB has launched AquaMaster+™, a digital platform for smart water network management, designed to help water utilities monitor, analyze and manage their water networks, preventing pipeline water losses and optimizing operations.
Craig Nienaber, Business Development Manager for Safe Access Solutions (SAS) at HUBER Technology, explores why the company is seeing a growing level of interest in its safe access solutions for critical infrastructure providers, including their application in wastewater treatment assets.