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First planning permission granted for Havant Thicket

Planning permission has been granted by Havant Borough Council for the construction of the first reservoir to be built in the UK since 1989. Portsmouth Water will supply neighbouring Southern with up to 21 million litres a day to ease supply issues in Southern's western region where it must reduce abstraction from chalk streams

3 years ago

Welsh Water unveils zero carbon 2040 target

3 years ago

United Utilities to sell renewable energy business

United Utilities has put its renewable energy business up for sale, with the process expected to commence in June. The water company said the disposal of its renewable energy assets - valued at £65.5 million - will allow it continue to benefitting from their output while reinvesting the proceeds in other low carbon projects.

3 years ago

Collaboration is key to preserving our natural habitats

Toby Willison, Southern Water's director of environment and corporate affairs, writes for Utility Week about the need for collaboration and partnerships with stakeholders outside the industry to deliver nature-based solutions

3 years ago

Why Ofwat is opening the door to innovation

3 years ago

Water neutrality ‘should be included in planning policy’

Planning policy at national and local level should consider water neutrality and greater ambition on efficiency for new homes and developments to meet housing and population needs in the coming decades. This is according to a panel of experts brought together by Waterwise.

3 years ago

UU invests £23m in treatment works upgrade

3 years ago

Anglian boss says carbon offsetting should be local

3 years ago

Ofwat approves £850m green investment and £1.9bn for WINEP

4 years ago

Ofwat mulls more detailed leakage reporting requirement

4 years ago

NI Water granted £2.1bn of capital investment

After six years of underinvestment, Northern Ireland Water has been granted £2.1 billion to spend on capital investment programmes to improve infrastructure as well as to meet climate and environmental goals. The increase in capital investment will enable the company to provide wastewater treatment services that have lagged behind the rate of housing growth.

4 years ago

‘Environmental cost of water should be added to its price’

4 years ago

Thames upgrades monitoring systems across London

4 years ago

Water companies ‘on track’ for flooding resilience action

The Environment Agency has updated flood defence plans in readiness for increased extreme weather and set out obligations for water companies to make assets resilient over the next asset management period.

4 years ago

Rolling out a smarter water future in London

4 years ago

Continuous analysis improves drinking water quality

4 years ago

Yorkshire adds phosphorous-treating ponds to wastewater site

4 years ago

Northumbrian’s Innovation Festival set to return in hybrid form

4 years ago

IWC: Smarter Tanks to improve resilience

One of Affinity Water's two winning bids in the Innovation in Water Challenge is to apply smart network techniques to assets such as storage water tanks to boost network capacity when demand is high. Project lead Mumin Islam talked to Utility Week about the project.

4 years ago

Leak repair tool wins Future Water innovation award

4 years ago