Environment

‘Environmental cost of water should be added to its price’

Rolling out a smarter water future in London

Northumbrian’s Innovation Festival set to return in hybrid form

Putting water neutrality back on the agenda

Report calls for EA to be fully funded

An environmental NGO has called for government to end its obsession with lower bills and allow the water sector to properly invest in infrastructure. The Salmon and Trout Conservation group asked government to remove obstructions that prevent the Environment Agency from monitoring polluters

Defra threatened with legal action over CSOs

An environmental group has threatened legal action against environment minister Rebecca Pow’s department for not dealing comprehensively with combined sewer overflows.

Ofwat names innovation competition winners

Water metering could save 0.5% of total carbon emissions

How Southern is transforming with an ex-EA executive

Utility Week speaks to former Environment Agency acting chief executive, Toby Willison, about his role at Southern Water and the company's environmental vision for the future.

Thames Water hits half million smart meter milestone

Anglian sets out £630m investment for 2021

Anglian has set out how it will spend £630 million from 2021/22 across its region with a focus on leakage, strategic infrastructure projects and protecting waterways including chalk streams.

UU ‘on track for lowest ever leakage’

United Utilities has said it is on track for its lowest leakage rates ever in the first year of AMP7 and has more than halved its supply interruptions during the past year. In a trading update published ahead of its full year results to 31 March, the company also confirmed it has recorded no serious pollution incidents for a second year.

Ofwat’s £40m innovation round to kick off in May

The main round of Ofwat's innovation competition kicks off in May with collaboration encouraged for entries that can win £1 million to £10 million to advance and commercialise ideas, models and processes that will benefit the whole sector. The regulator has also updated on activity in the first round of the Innovation in Water Challenge.

Affinity ramps up home efficiency checks

Affinity's customers have saved thousands of litres of water in the past few months thanks to virtual home visits that let the company remotely share advice on reducing consumption without entering peoples' homes.

A window to innovation

Last month Anglian expanded its Shop Window project, which aims to use the town of Newmarket as a live testbed for innovative solutions to the problems the water sector is facing now, and for the future. Utility Week chats to the driving forces behind the project.