Water

Revolutionising streetworks with robotics and AI

Ofwat accused of ‘populist’ attacks on foreign investors

Yorkshire Water has accused Ofwat of resorting to "populist" tactics, with an "unrestrained attack" on foreign investors in the sector. The company warned that the regulator risks undermining trust in the system and driving away investors. The accusations are included in the latest submission to the PR19 appeals.

Field forces get digital

How AI is changing finance and operations in the utilities sector

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.

SVT welcomes 500 Kickstart apprentices

Severn Trent will be taking on 500 young people over the next year under the government's social mobility scheme, to offer six-month skills and training job placements for 16-24 year olds facing long-term unemployment.

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.

Accelerated transformation in field operations

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

On the move: Ofwat, SSE, Rebel Energy

Net zero requires £400bn spend this decade

Green infrastructure investment must double from current levels, to £40 billion per annum over the next decade, to reach the UK’s decarbonisation target. This is the conclusion of research by PwC, which has also warned that half of the investment opportunities identified would currently be unable to access low-cost capital because they would be considered too high risk. It has called for government to urgently identify mechanisms to ensure this funding is forthcoming.

NI Water embarks on hydrogen production project

NI Water is to become the first in the UK to produce hydrogen through electrolysis at a wastewater treatment site.  

CMA confirms extension to water company appeals

Will Ofwat’s new innovation fund make a splash?

Ofwat’s new £200 million fund for water sector innovation aims to trigger transformational change in the way the sector tackles it's grand challenges. But will it succeed? This was the question up for debate among industry leaders at a virtual round table, supported by CGI.

Ofwat adjusts price controls

Ofwat has adjusted water company price controls to reflect actual performance in 2019/20 instead of forecasted data. Thames, Southern, Yorkshire and Anglian saw the biggest change to allowed revenue for the so-called blind year