21 Nov 2017

Utility Week has rounded up some of the innovations water companies have developed to help deliver the resilience Ofwat wants to see in AMP7 and beyond. They include: Northumbrian Water – Rainwise Severn Trent – Satellites Southern Water – Target 100 Welsh Water – Reducing discolouration and blockages Wessex Water – The Optimiser Yorkshire Water […]

26 Sep 2017

Resilience, one of the four themes of Ofwat’s 2019 price review, took centre stage at recent event in London, with senior figures from across the water sector gathering to discuss what ‘resilience in the round’ should look like in practice and how water companies can learn from the past experiences and best practices of other […]

26 Sep 2017

At the Labour Party conference, John McDonnell pledged that a future Labour government’s new breed of public-owned energy supply will be based on renewable power sources. In his keynote speech at the Labour Party annual conference today, the shadow chancellor of the exchequer said that the recent storms and flooding over recent months had been […]

07 Sep 2016

This article from Utility Week, looks at what water companies are doing to reduce carbon emissions. Water is one of the most energy-intensive sectors in the UK. It is also one of the business sectors most affected by climate change. Lois Vallely takes a look at what the industry is doing to cut carbon. The […]