Z-Tech Control Systems has been commissioned to undertake 3 Allen Bradley programmable logic controllers (PLC) 5 upgrades to ControlLogix for Crossness and Beckton Sewage Treatment works, as part of Thames Water’s investment programme.

Westminster Labour Councillors have written to Ofwat to urge the regulator to reject Thames Water’s application to increase prices by 8% for 2014/15.

Thames Water has asked Ofwat to consider increasing the limits on the prices it can charge its customers.

A bus-sized ‘fatberg’, a lump of food fat mixed with wet wipes, has been removed from sewer under Kingston by Thames Water.

Thames Water has proposed a £17.5 million plan to build two overspill tanks to capture sewage and stormwater in response to customers demanding action to protect their homes from sewer flooding.

Thames Water was ordered to pay £27,779.15 by Staines Magistrates Court on Friday last week for causing the pollution of the Engine River near to Walton Lane, Weybridge between 4 and 15 November 2011.

International infrastructure group Balfour Beatty plc today announced that its joint venture with Skanska and MWH Global, SMB, has secured a seven-yearAMP6 contract with Thames Water which will help to ensure the resilience of the water infrastructure in London and the South for future generations.

A joint venture of Costain, Atkins and Veolia Water has been appointed as design and build consortium to Thames Water’s AMP6 programme, which is worth up to £3 billion.

Increasing the proportion of metered homes from 30 per cent to 56 per cent by 2020 is one of Thames Water’s targets as it invites customers to comment on its draft business plan for the next price review period beginning 2015.

Two joint ventures have won the race to be design-and-build contractors on Thames Water’s £3 billion AMP6 alliance, according to reports.