Water

Peers push for new legal duty on water firms

Green light for 15 RAPID projects

Drinking Water Quality: Innovation in Chlorate Reduction

COP26: Technology investment and digital strategy key to 2030 net zero ambitions

Weekend press round-up: Power struggle with Europe as UK grid battles to keep the lights on

In our latest review of sector coverage in the national newspapers, there is analysis of last week’s surge in power prices. Meanwhile, UK ministers have been criticised over the number of meetings they have carried out with fossil fuel and biomass energy producers, and concern is raised about lack of investment in green infrastructure and jobs.

COP26: Anglian and Mott MacDonald to co-lead water theme

Transforming your service operations is hard. Selecting the right partner shouldn’t be

Ofwat: We recognise real transformation comes at a cost

The Ofwat director heading up PR24 has urged water companies to put forward bold solutions in the next price control but emphasised these must be set in a long-term context. Aileen Armstrong, senior director at the regulator, stressed the need to look beyond heavy infrastructure as the answer to all problems but accepted that this would come at a cost. She said she expected companies to look at spreading these costs over current and future generations.

Hitting back at rising consumer debt: the role of open banking

Pauline Walsh steps down from Affinity Water

Ofwat provisionally approves Thames’ £600m resilience spend

Effluent discharge permits relaxed over supply pressures

Why Anglian’s 500km resilience solution is ‘so much more than a pipe’

UU’s BEIS-funded bioresources trial cut energy use 84%

Initial results from a BEIS-funded trial to cut energy consumption in wastewater treatment processes has shown power savings of up to 84 per cent compared to a traditional centrifuge. The pilot is the first commercial-scale demonstration of the Volute technology in the UK

Mapping a pollinator superhighway