05 Oct 2021
From Ofwat In 2021, water companies, in partnership with others, have been invited to enter two types of competition with their innovations: A £2 million Innovation in Water Challenge (IWC) with the opportunity to receive funding of up to £250,000 and a £40 million Water Breakthrough Challenge (Breakthrough 1) with the opportunity to receive funding […]
05 Oct 2021
Blog by Dr Peter Matthews, past president of CIWEM and former Chair of Natural Resources Wales COP26 is fast approaching, bringing with it – we hope – all the attention and urgency the climate crisis requires. We see it in the news, we read it in IPCC reports – but it’s not (exclusively) through academic […]
28 Sep 2021
From Water UK (also covered by CIWEM) Support for the Race to Zero continues to grow as Water UK welcomes SES Water and Wessex Water on board as the latest members to commit to playing their part in a net zero future. Both companies have recently published detailed plans to achieve net zero operational emissions […]
21 Sep 2021
Ofwat has given its backing for 15 projects on the £500 million programme being overseen by the Regulators Alliance for Progressing Infrastructure Development (RAPID) to progress further. Ofwat has published draft Gate 1 decisions on these strategic water resource schemes, which have been put forward by Affinity Water, Anglian Water, Cambridge Water (South Staffs Water), […]
21 Sep 2021
Good afternoon I’m delighted to announce that today the water sector innovation centre of excellence – Spring – has launched. This is a soft launch of the name, branding and the four main functions that will go live in December. We’re immensely grateful for the support we’ve received from water company colleagues as Spring has […]
14 Sep 2021
From the Guardian One of the first complaints lodged with the post-Brexit environmental watchdog accuses the government and Ofwat of failing to enforce the law to stop water companies from routinely discharging raw sewage into rivers. The office for environmental protection (OEP) is being asked to investigate why water companies have been able to continually fail […]
07 Sep 2021
From UKWIR Good afternoon We’re really pleased to share an overview of four major projects underway to address one of the biggest challenges the water sector is facing – achieving net zero operational carbon emissions. This document provides a snapshot of our work under our Big Question – How do we remove more carbon than […]
01 Sep 2021
The Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) partnership is inviting you to take part in the following consultation on the: draft revised Water Industry Strategic Environmental Requirements (WISER). The draft revised WISER has been jointly developed by Environment Agency and Natural England. The document has 2 parts which you can download below. WISER Part 1 sets out the environmental challenges that […]
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