Water

Northumbrian uses AI to predict customer behaviour

Building bridges over troubled waters

Sludge efficiency challenges could be introduced at PR24

Meet the Innovators: Shaunna Berendsen, Spring

Call for water efficiency spend to be doubled at PR24

Innovation round-up: National Grid and Hitachi Energy ‘world first’, Anglian trials IoT monitoring

Lessons from the first year of Ofwat’s Innovation Fund

On the move: Anglian appoints head of new environment arm

Severn Trent fined £1.5m for pollution offences

Southern underperforms against key AMP7 targets

Southern Water's interim results for the first six months of 2021/22 show the business is behind on a series of key targets and has already exceeded its annual maximum number of sewer flooding incidents following a particularly wet summer season. The company, which welcomed a new majority shareholder in September when Macquarie invested more than £1 billion, has set out it strategies to improve across all indicators.

Pay.UK – the next step in Bacs’ evolution

Funding approved for 15 RAPID schemes

Meet the Innovators: Kieran Brocklebank, United Utilities

What UK water firms could learn from going Dutch

Ofwat mulls protections against ‘risky’ financial structures

Ofwat has set out options to protect customers from water company financing risks as part of a consultation following its financial resilience report last month. The regulator has proposed measures including raising the minimum standards of credit quality, strengthening expectations on dividend payments being linked to performance and increasing transparency.