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Yu Water has applied for a sewerage retail licence to add to its existing water retail licence.
Inconsistent communication has been the bane of the water market’s existence since it opened more than a year ago. Now, at last, a solution is closer to being found.
Chris Scoggins is a problem-solver. That’s just as well, because his latest role involves transforming the water retail market operator from a dynamic but makeshift start-up into a slick “enduring organisation”.
"As well as a collective approach, there are lots we can do individually as retailers and indeed wholesalers, to help customers reduce their water use"
Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) has appointed a new water director who will set out the company’s ambition to be a “game changer” when it comes to tackling leakage.
Recent research by the Guardian newspaper confirms that up to 20% of our water –
Brewer and pub retailer Greene King was the first company to make the plunge into the world of self-supply. But it isn’t the only company to have taken this route. Utility Week takes a look at some of the other companies hoping to benefit from providing their own water retail services.
We’re tiptoeing towards the end of one of the most parched summers in decades. But
Pub chain and brewer Greene King has revealed that it is saving more than 600,000 pints of water each day since obtaining a self-supply licence to deliver its own water and wastewater services last year.
The water retail market operator (MOSL) is on track to move out of London by January 2019 to cut costs.
There have been too many bells and whistles in the reports published about the water retail market, promoting it as a success, according to Water2business managing director Charley Maher.
Global temperatures are up 1.8 degrees since 1980 and 55% of the world’s population now live
Olympos Water has become the latest company to apply for a water supply and sewerage licence, hoping to create a multi-utility provider for the water retail market.
The company said the win builds on its “reputation as a specialist in the healthcare sector”, having recently secured contracts with the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and BMI Healthcare.
The introduction of this “smart technology” to business water customers “complements” Wave’s commitment to driving water efficiency, the retailer said.
“What would have been leading performance when I came to Northumbrian Water just wouldn’t pass now.”
“The water sector hasn’t had it easy this year. As if one extreme weather event
The rate of switching in the water retail market has dropped to almost its lowest level since the market opened, MOSL has revealed.
A proposed change to the codes which govern the water retail market will result in customers being able to be back-billed, Castle Water has warned.