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Three quarters of businesses have inadequate water meters

Three quarters of business water customers are not adequately metered, with 10% having no meter. Only 25% of businesses have internal meters, which have the highest level of reporting accuracy, while 65% of business meters are external.

2 years ago

How utilities can shift from an ego-system to an eco-system

2 years ago

£20m pipeline to boost water security in Essex

A water transfer project to move 50 megalitres of water between treatment sites in Essex has begun work to bolster resilience of supplies in the region. Raw supplies will be able to move from a reservoir to both treatment plants to better exploit treatment capacity. Essex and Suffolk is investing £20million in the scheme, which will serve 370,000 customers.

2 years ago

UK water security at risk

2 years ago

Yorkshire Water invests £40m in phosphorus removal

2 years ago

Hosepipe ban to end after 14 months

2 years ago

We need to rethink our relationship with water

2 years ago

Northumbrian rolls out £10m treatment upgrade

2 years ago

Water UK: Misleading sewage claims help no one

2 years ago

Weekend press: Health check of England’s waters faces six-year wait

2 years ago

Probe launched into Yorkshire’s poor bathing water quality

2 years ago

Unacceptable quality blamed for Southern Water outages

2 years ago

Demystifying social value in the water sector

2 years ago

Ofwat warns suppliers against overstating energy costs

2 years ago

Thames to replace sewage pipe after multiple bursts

2 years ago

United Utilities fined £800k for draining aquifer

2 years ago

Unlimited fines for polluting firms edge closer

2 years ago

Southern redesigns wastewater site to slash spills

2 years ago

Bullying complaints rocket at Defra

2 years ago

Macquarie injects further £550m into Southern

Southern Water's majority stakeholder Macquarie has invested an extra £550 million into the company to keep up momentum in its turnaround plan. It said impacts from the current economic environment had put extra pressure on business costs so the money will allow Southern to continue making improvements on tackling sewer overflows and bolstering resilience

2 years ago