Defra has told the sludge working group set up by Ofwat to explore a number of issues around the nascent bioresources market that there is currently a lack of evidence around a regulatory impact assessment and £m benefits to make the case for legislative change around the co-treatment of sludge with other waste.

United Utilities is embarking on a major initiative for the optimisation of its S2E biogas to energy production facilities.

Ofwat has launched a new consultation on proposed changes to the reporting requirements for the Annual Performance Report s produced by the water companies for the 2016-17 reporting year.

A review commissioned by Ofwat to help it understand whether sludge and water resource cost and revenue data is robust and comparable with the advent of possible competition in upstream services has flagged up inconsistencies and variations in data provided by the 10 water and sewerage companies.