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WRMPs to reflect impacts of Covid-19 on demand

Following a consultation the EA will update guidelines for water resources management planning from 2024 to reflect changes in usage patterns because of coronavirus as well as requesting more evidence of environmental improvements

4 years ago

What’s in the pipeline to tackle leakage?

Tougher leakage targets and societal pressures to conserve water lost through pipes means all water companies need to do a lot more this AMP cycle to find and fix leaks. Experts share their views with Utility Week on the opportunities and challenges the sector faces.

4 years ago

Call for incentives to cut process emissions

With no policy or financial incentives in place to cut methane and nitrous oxide emissions, the onus is on water companies to reduce process emissions from wastewater treatment processes, a panel of experts told Utility Week.

4 years ago

Water sector failing on PCC and pollution targets

Most water companies in England and Wales are failing to meet their per capita consumption targets, with overall performance deteriorating by 2 per cent since 2012/13 and pollution incidents up year on year, Ofwat’s service delivery report for 2018/19 has shown.

4 years ago

Welsh Water – innovating for AMP7

Peter Perry, who joined Welsh Water as an apprentice, became chief executive in the midst of the pandemic after Chris Jones retired in April. He chats with Utility Week about getting through 2020, the projects that excite him for AMP7 and what billpayers expect from their water company

4 years ago

Government must reinstate shelved water ambitions

4 years ago

Are you letting the Covid crisis go to waste? 

Dean Wheeler, partner at management consultancy firm Reson8, says the pandemic has given water and wastewater asset managers a chance to think about maintenance differently and move to a 'less is more' approach.

4 years ago

Supply chain predicts revenue downturn for next year

The impact of lockdown is expected to still be felt by members of the supply chain into 2021, according to a British Water survey that shows a third of companies anticipate revenues to be reduced in the next six to 12 months

4 years ago

Emma Howard Boyd: ‘Environmental fines need to hurt’

4 years ago

Ofwat names innovation partners

4 years ago

South East Water reaches out to abstractors for WRMP

South East Water has appealed to businesses in its region that abstract water directly or have access to bore holes and other sources, as it plans its water resource management plan.

4 years ago

Riding the Wave of 2020

It has been an extremely challenging year for the non-household water market, and as Wave chief executive Lucy Darch tells Utility Week, retailers started out with little resilience to deal with the fallout. She gives her view on how to strengthen the sector for the future and what a second lockdown means for customers.

4 years ago

UU creates UK’s first ‘smart water town’

United Utilities has created a town-wide smart water network in Macclesfield that incorporates AI to learn from patterns in the network data to detect leaks before they spring

4 years ago

Water sector unveils plan to cut emissions by 10m tonnes

4 years ago

Christine McGourty: Time for action not delegation

The climate crisis is the biggest challenge we are facing and we cannot expect politicians to sort it out: we all have a part to play, writes Christine McGourty, chief executive of Water UK

4 years ago

Morrison US installs surge training rig at South West Water site

Morrison has installed a bespoke training rig at South West's Exeter site to replicate the network conditions that lead to transient water surges.

4 years ago

Pipes and soil studied to cut leakage

4 years ago

Campaign to boost value of water launched

Fresh off the success of Water's Worth Saving, Waterwise has launched a month-long campaign to persuade people to value water more highly and use it more efficiently

4 years ago

Ambitious water efficiency targets needed to meet climate change commitments

4 years ago

Chalk stream commitments made in the South

Chalk streams health will be improved following promises by Affinity, Anglian, Southern and Thames Water to reduce abstraction and pollution to restore flows and health of these ecologically critical waterways

4 years ago

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