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Ofwat’s £40m innovation round to kick off in May

The main round of Ofwat's innovation competition kicks off in May with collaboration encouraged for entries that can win £1 million to £10 million to advance and commercialise ideas, models and processes that will benefit the whole sector. The regulator has also updated on activity in the first round of the Innovation in Water Challenge.

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Affinity ramps up home efficiency checks

Affinity's customers have saved thousands of litres of water in the past few months thanks to virtual home visits that let the company remotely share advice on reducing consumption without entering peoples' homes.

5 years ago

A window to innovation

Last month Anglian expanded its Shop Window project, which aims to use the town of Newmarket as a live testbed for innovative solutions to the problems the water sector is facing now, and for the future. Utility Week chats to the driving forces behind the project.

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Yorkshire awards contracts worth £553m

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Pollard: We need to turn water industry on its head

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Government to consider common resilience standard for critical infrastructure

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Alliance formed to stop leaky loos

A water efficiency group that includes Waterwise, Thames and SES Water has teamed up with the Bathroom Manufacturers Association (BMA) in a bid to banish leaking toilets.

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Water efficiency will be central to PR24

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Affinity to launch efficiency campaign

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Thames customers report thousands of blockages via online tool

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Eliminating combined sewer overflows could cost £100bn

Eliminating the harm from combined sewer overflows will require multi-faceted action supported by regulation and legislation to improve river health but could cost more than £100 billion, Water UK has told the Environmental Audit Committee in a written submission.

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Severn Trent trials novel pipe renewal technology

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Water usage driven more by behaviour than socioeconomics or weather

Customer behaviour and choices are key to halving freshwater abstraction sustainably by 2050, a study by UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) has shown.

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No cranes without drains

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Training Fido

The potential to improve leakage rates using AI technology is growing. Fido Tech's co-founder Neil Edwards discusses a trial his company ran with United Utilities and the next steps.

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Innovate East returns to address decarbonisation

To address some of the problematic elements of decarbonisation in the water sector, this virtual innovation festival jointly hosted by Anglian, Yorkshire and Essex & Suffolk will look towards COP26

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SES launches ‘myth busting’ campaign

SES Water has created a campaign to debunk commonly held myths about water consumption at a personal, local and global level as part of its efforts to reduce consumer demand in its region.

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Northumbrian targets water efficiency scheme at children

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Yorkshire’s leakage trial saving 90,000 litres per day

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‘Failure is a part of great ambition on the path to net zero’

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