Southern Water has launched a market engagement exercise seeking supply chain interest in its £1.3 billion Hampshire Water Transfer and Water Recycling Project (Phase 3). The water company is “strongly encouraging” market involvement including potential investors and supply chain organisations.

The UK and Welsh Governments are launching an Independent Commission into the water sector and its regulation, in what is expected to form the largest review of the industry since privatisation.

Uisce Éireann estimates it will require a minimum investment of €55-€60 billion up to 2050 to enable growth, improve compliance and increase the resilience of its assets.

Bournemouth Water has started a major £85 million upgrade to its Knapp Mill Water Treatment Works in Christchurch.

South East Water.has published it Water Resources Management plan setting out a £2.3 billion package of work to secure future drinking water supplies in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire for the next 50 years.

The economist Dan Corry has been appointed to carry out an internal review into the regulation and regulators at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra).

London’s super sewer, designed to protect the River Thames from sewage pollution well into the future, has now been turned on.

Thousands of jobs in green industries have been announced as the UK Government welcomes more than £24 billion of private investment for pioneering energy projects ahead of the International Investment Summit on 14th October.

Uisce Éireann has launched an eight-week public consultation on a long-term plan to ensure the adequate provision of wastewater services for Galway City and parts of Galway County.

Global investors have warned the Government over the prospects of attracting major infrastructure investment in the UK’s regulated utilities sectors in the light of Thames Water’s ongoing financial crisis, according to a front page report in the Business& Money section of yesterday’s Sunday Times.