11 Jan 2022
In advance of the World Water Tech Summit in London next month, water utilities share their industry predictions and offer a glimpse of their innovation objectives. Not surprisingly, there is a focus on net zero and climate change mitigation and adaptation, but also water reuse, digitalization and potentially the largest investment programme since privatization. Read […]
05 Jan 2022
The Financial Times has published two separate articles flagging up decades of under-investment by the water companies in their networks while paying £73 billion in dividends to shareholders. From Waterbriefing The articles draw on new research by the leading business publication which shows that six out of 10 companies increased their capital investment in the […]
12 Oct 2021
CCW has set out clear priorities for what we want to see from the 2024 Price Review (PR24), and what we intend do to help: Providing clarity through collaborative research Instead of each water company conducting its own research, we will help to facilitate centralised research across the industry. We hope that this will improve […]
05 Oct 2021
From Water UK Water industry calls for a wave of bathing rivers as part of a new national plan to improve the health of English rivers Water companies want government, agriculture, and other sectors to come together and help create a series of bathing rivers across the country Research shows the many sources of pollution […]
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), […]
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