Scottish Water has reached a major milestone in its £60 million investment to upgrade Invercannie Water Treatment Works (WTW) in Aberdeenshire - the WTW was originally constructed more than 150 years ago.

The Institution of Civil Engineers has published an interesting policy paper on learning lessons from the cancellation of HS2’s northern leg.

Ground has officially been broken on the UK’s first new reservoir to be constructed in over 30 years. Once complete, Havant Thicket Reservoir will hold up to 8.7 billion litres of water.

Essential works on Uisce Éireann’s €114 million Athlone Main Drainage Scheme have now tunnelled past the halfway mark, with 1.6km of the 2.8km underground sewer pipes installed - some of which are large enough for a person to walk through.

Thames Water has appointed Jacobs and Mott MacDonald (Jacobs Mott MacDonald joint venture) as its Technical Partner to lead development proposals for vital new infrastructure to tackle the risk of drought in London.

Thames Water is inviting interested suppliers to attend an online launch event at the end of September for its upcoming AMP8 tender to put a Mains Rehab Framework agreement in place worth an estimated £440 million.

Engineers constructing a new 19.5km water pipeline to protect water supplies in Essex have reached a major milestone.

Defra Minister Steve Reed has announced that the Government is to carry out a full review of the water sector, saying that “fourteen years of Tory failure have left much of our infrastructure in disrepair.”

The Environment Agency is inviting construction suppliers to request and complete a pre-market engagement questionnaire by 10.00 am on 17^th September ahead of going out to tender with an upcoming £3 billion framework contract for its Collaborative Delivery Framework (CDF)2.

Owner of Northumbrian Water Group CK Infrastructure Holdings Ltd has been admitted to the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.