A new appointment by Bristol Water, along with further changes to be announced during this financial year, means that the water firm’s Board will have a majority of independent directors, in line with Ofwat’s Corporate Governance Principles.
Bristol Water has appointed Tim Tutton as an independent non executive director to its Board with effect from 1st January 2015.
Mr Tutton is an economic consultant specialising in economic regulation, especially in the energy sector. He is an Honorary University Fellow in the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at Exeter University and a specialist communications and utility panel member at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Previously he has been UK Director of Regulation at National Grid, Director of UK Utility Regulation at PricewaterhouseCoopers, a Senior Adviser at Oxera and Adjunct Professor in the Energy Futures Lab at Imperial College.
James Sumsion, CEO of predictive water intelligence specialists Kohtari, says the water sector needs to take a giant leap forward, so that it can anticipate and act upon water quality issues - rather than merely react.
Ray Moulds, Sales Director at Flood Control International, takes a look at how automated sliding floodgates are supporting secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites.
With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, then environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”
ERG, the leading supplier of odour control systems and industrial gas cleaning & thermal systems, has been awarded the coveted King’s Award for Enterprise.
Hear how Scottish Water has completed its £235 million Ayrshire Glasgow Resilience Project - customers across Greater Glasgow, Ayrshire and East Renfrewshire will now benefit from a more secure and resilient water supply.
Hear how United Utilities is accelerating its investment to reduce spills from storm overflows across the Northwest.
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