Uisce Éireann crews will start work next week on major mains replacement works to the west of Galway City – the water company will replace more than a kilometre of aging cast iron mains with modern, plastic pipes.

The latest data market from MOSL shows that one in ten businesses now have smart water metering – the number of businesses with smart meters as at 4 August 2025 stands at 10.36% compared to 0.03% at market opening in April 2017.

Uisce Éireann has successfully completed critical and complex repair works to a major pipeline that connects Ballymore Eustace Water Treatment Plant and the Saggart Reservoir. The major pipeline that supplies one third of the Greater Dublin Area’s (GDA) drinking water.

Yorkshire Water has begun a project between two of its reservoirs to provide protection for Dunkirk Beck and the river Worth during the county’s drought, which was declared by the Environment Agency on 12 June this year.

A 120 tonne fatberg, equivalent in size of a blue whale, has been removed from a large trunk sewer in Oxford. Clearing the fatberg required a coordinated effort from multiple Thames Water teams and contractors, highlighting the scale and complexity of the operation.