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Avove wins Contractor of the Year and Best Place to Work honours
Avove, a Tier 1 contractor partnering exclusively with the UK's critical utilities, has won both Contractor of the Year and Best Place to Work – Contractor, at the New Civil Engineer Awards 2026.
The double success reflects the company's growth...
Businesses urged to plan for water disruption as continuity risks grow, new report says
Businesses are becoming better prepared for long-term water challenges than they are for short-term supply disruption, according to a new report by Water Direct, the UK’s leading alternative water supplier.
The report “From Water Stewardship to Continuity: Reframing Water Resilience...
Operational Resilience and the Water Sector’s Emerging Capability Challenge
The water sector has always operated in a complex environment. However, the nature of that complexity is changing. Intelligencia Training, the UK’s leading provider of protective services apprenticeships, shares insight.
As organisations navigate AMP8, regulatory expectations, environmental pressures, digital transformation...
Case Study: CMO High-Pressure Knife Gate Valve Solution for a Major UK Water Company
Project Overview
As part of a major U.K. water infrastructure improvement programme, Bonomi UK was selected to supply specialist knife gate valves for a high-pressure potable water application. The project required robust valve technology capable of operating reliably under demanding...
REDUCING LEAK RUN TIME THROUGH SMARTER INVESTIGATION PRIORITISATION
Every day a leak remains undiscovered, treated drinking water escapes from the network and operational costs accumulate. For utilities managing thousands of kilometres of buried infrastructure, the value of any leak detection programme is not measured by the number...
Inspiring Women in Water: From Treatment Works to Training the Next Generation
The water industry is built on the expertise, dedication and professionalism of the people working across it every day. Yet despite significant progress in recent years, women remain underrepresented in many operational, technical and engineering roles throughout the sector.
As...
Advancing Water Quality Monitoring Through Optical Spectroscopy
Experts often need to investigate the pollution in rivers, oceans, underground water, and other sources of water to determine the cause of environmental deterioration and potential health hazards. Environmental regulators therefore require a reliable and efficient way to measure...
NORTHERN IRELAND WATER EXPANDS SMART METERING TRIALS WITH SUEZ
Northern Ireland Water is expanding its use of smart metering technology across commercial properties following a series of successful trials with SUEZ.
The initiative builds on an initial deployment at Queen’s University Belfast, where SUEZ’s Wize network, combined with smart...
Building Digital Root Cause Capability with Anglian Water
Every quality and improvement professional knows that investigations create valuable opportunities to learn, improve and prevent recurrence. For water companies, where Operational, Environmental and Asset Management teams often face similar challenges from different perspectives, building organisational learning capability can...
Why water theft can no longer be ignored
Water scarcity is no longer a future risk. It is a present and growing global challenge.
Across the world, up to 70 percent of regions face seasonal water stress.1,2 Climate change continues to disrupt the water cycle, increasing pressure...
Thames Water secures funding for pioneer projects
Thames Water has secured Ofwat’s Water Innovation Fund backing for two projects designed to reduce disruption for customers and communities, while delivering long-term environmental and operational benefits.
The two initiatives are winners of the sixth Water Breakthrough Challenge, funded by the Water Innovation Fund,...
Water’s huge impact on our economic growth
The government can set ambitious housing targets, roll out renewables and make moves into the data economy, but little of this can come to fruition if the water system cannot supply, move and treat water to the extent that...
Measuring pollutant-destroying molecules used in water treatment
The detection technique opens new paths for clean water technologies, writes Joseph E. Harmon, of Argonne National Laboratory.
Reactive oxygen species are powerful enough to clean our water and more. Argonne researchers have found a highly sensitive way to measure...
NI Water warning over major infrastructure challenges and key investments
NI Water has outlined the scale of investment challenges facing water and wastewater infrastructure during a presentation to Fermanagh and Omagh District Council.
A senior representative highlighted essential projects underway across the council, alongside the significant funding challenges impacting delivery...
Solving the modernisation conundrum for water
Migrating to a new data platform used to mean either a ‘big bang’ or a longer ‘wave-based’ approach. Thankfully, today’s platforms offer a practical compromise. Peter Bosley-Sharpe, President EMEA, SNP Group, explains.
Water companies are under more pressure than ever...
Our water infrastructure is open to attack – here’s how to establish cyber resilience
The cyber fundamentals for UK water are quite simple, says David Bean, Business Development Group Manager, Mitsubishi Electric Automation Systems Division.
Infrastructure is deemed critical when disruption has severe consequences for public safety, economic stability and national security.
Whilst there is...
SES Water cuts smart meter rollout costs by 70%
SES Water has reduced the cost of rolling out smart metering by 70% by transforming existing meters into a fully connected digital network, using British technology.
Using B4T’s Jellyfish Bridge technology, in just four months a team of two engineers...
South Staffordshire fined nearly £1m after major cyber-attack and data breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined South Staffordshire Plc and South Staffordshire Water Plc (together South Staffordshire) £963,900, following a serious cyber-attack that resulted in the personal information of 633,887 people being extracted and published on the dark...
Key milestone reached in new reservoir pipeline planning
A key milestone has been reached on the Havant Thicket Reservoir project, with work about to begin on two new pipelines in Havant, Hampshire.
The pipelines will be used to fill the new reservoir with water from local springs and...
Why “Genny-First” Could Be the Single Biggest Behavioural Shift in Water Network Safety
On excavation sites across the UK water industry, one piece of equipment is being underused every working day - and the cost is being paid in strikes, injuries, and emergency repairs.
Walk onto any water network excavation in the UK,...
Cleaner Water, Safer Air: Why Integrated Monitoring Is Critical for Modern Industrial Operations
Industrial wastewater treatment is becoming increasingly complex. Across sectors such as pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and food processing, operators must balance strict discharge compliance, process efficiency and workplace safety—all while managing highly variable wastewater conditions.
At the center of this challenge lies...
Seeing the Unseen: How Flow and Turbidity Data Reveal Hidden Risks in Wastewater
In today’s increasingly regulated and resource-constrained industrial landscape, water management has become far more than a compliance exercise. For facilities discharging wastewater—whether in manufacturing, food and beverage, or pharmaceuticals—maintaining control over both the quantity and quality of effluent is...
Portsmouth Water’s biggest renewable project is going ahead with a capped green energy tariff
Price Protect tariff shields Portsmouth Water from energy price volatility
Made possible by Wattstor, a next generation energy company, with expertise in both engineering and commercial energy models
Set to double Portsmouth Water’s renewable capacity to 6 MW...
Next-generation tower lights improve operations in water and wastewater
New Harmony range from Schneider Electric future proofs signalling
Improves safety and reduces downtime through visual and audible alerts
Streamlines maintenance and spare parts inventory
Schneider Electric, the global leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, has...
Blockage Detection: StormHarvester & Barwon Water – Using Advanced Analytics to Reduce Sewer Blockage Risk
1. BARWON WATER SERVICE AREA
StormHarvester and Barwon Water began working together in 2025 as part of a transition from reactive to proactive wastewater network management. The project focused on using a network of sewer level sensors, and machine-learning analysis,...
Vision for Water Needs Better Root Cause Analysis
The UK water sector has never lacked ambition.
Across regulatory frameworks, industry strategies and collaborative initiatives, there is a shared commitment to improving environmental outcomes, service reliability and public trust. The Vision for Water reflects these ambitions clearly: healthier rivers,...
The Illusion of Resolution: Why Ineffective Solutions Keep Getting Reapplied
Across the UK water sector, operational teams respond quickly and effectively to incidents.
Issues are investigated, actions are implemented and systems are restored. In many cases, these responses are appropriate and necessary to maintain service and reduce risk.
However, a more...
New £1.6 million government-backed fund to drive water-saving across Cambridgeshire
A new £1.6 million, fully government-funded initiative is set to support businesses and organisations across Cambridgeshire to reduce water use through practical upgrades and innovative efficiency solutions.
The Water Efficiency Cambridgeshire Fund (the weCB Fund), sponsored by the Ministry of Housing,...
UV Optical Sensors for Continuous Water Quality Monitoring
Reliable water quality monitoring is becoming increasingly important across treatment plants, distribution networks and industrial water systems. Instead of relying only on laboratory testing, many operators now want simple, continuous measurement directly in the process so they can react...
