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Water efficiency pleas must be tailored to specific customers

Attitudes to water may be a barrier to efficiency, according to an insight company that is working with Southern and South East to find the most effective ways to talk to consumers about their habits.

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United Utilities launches innovation accelerator

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Water sector underperforms but gains trust

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Homeworking can be a catalyst for change

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Wastewater analysed to detect coronavirus

Wastewater could be an early indicator of outbreaks of Covid-19, as non-infectious, genetic material from the virus is understood to survive in faeces. Research into the detection and behaviour of the virus is being undertaken across the UK and hailed as the 'canary in the coalmine' for the disease

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Yorkshire tenders to switch to solar power

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CCC pushes for water metering and labelling

The Committee on Climate Change has called on Defra to increase water metering, set more ambitious leakage and consumption targets and introduce mandatory water efficiency labelling. Anglian Water's climate change and carbon manager Matt Pluke welcomed the recognition of the water sector’s role in achieving the net zero target but said more needs to be done to eliminate emissions from heating.

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Thames flushes out fatbergs across capital

Thames Water has shifted almost 700 tonnes of debris from its sewer network including fatbergs and concretebergs that form when improper materials are disposed of down the drain.

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Wessex establishes community fund

To help people in the community worst affected by the coronavirus, Wessex Water has established a foundation to distribute annual grants between local charitable organisations

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Portsmouth cuts leakage to lowest level

Portsmouth Water's head of water resources tells Utility Week how the company reached its lowest ever leakage rate with new technologies and a new approach to weather events.

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UKWIR examines consumption in project to halve abstraction

The largest research project of its kind has been launched by the UK Water Industry Research with companies across the UK and Ireland to understand consumption as part of a larger investigation into reducing abstraction.

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UU trials biomass crops to cut nitrates

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Public concern for environment growing but water left behind

Despite the driest spring on record the British public still overwhelmingly considers the UK to be a wet place and many have no concerns about future water supplies. That is according to a new report by Love Water which also suggests people are more aware and concerned about the natural world as a result of the coronavirus lockdown.

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Lessons from Down Under for AMP7

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Anglian: Coronavirus uncertainty heightens need to invest

Anglian Water has reported strong performance financially, operationally and environmentally for 2019/20 as it reflects on the end of AMP6 and looks ahead to AMP7.

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NI Water: ‘Act now to protect water supplies’

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Wastewater team creates mobile testing units

A team from Northumbrian Water has created a mobile testing system to analyse wastewater during treatment to improve the quality of discharge.

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Anglian rolls out meters following successful trial

After a successful trial in Newmarket that saw consumption drop by 8 per cent, Anglian has announced a water meter rollout programme targeting up to 750 installations per day

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Ofwat sets out its three-pronged approach to £200m innovation fund

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Auriga puts stepping stones in place for shared PSR

Auriga Services, a subsidiary of Severn Trent Trust Fund, has revealed it will launch a nationwide portal to share information about vulnerable customers later this year. Under the system - being trialled with Thames Water - customers will only have to register their details with one company and other utilities using the portal will be able to access this data.

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