The Board of South East Water has announced that the company’s executive team has the support of the Board following the publication on Friday of a highly critical report entitled “Failures at South East Water” and the resignation of Independent Non-Executive Chair, Chris Train on the same day.

With a new report published last week by the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee on PFAS recommending ever-tighter regulatory restrictions, a timely article from Dale Foster and Adrian Heneghan at HUBER Technology discusses how sludge drying technology has a key role to play in the water companies’ toolkit.

The Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames (RBK) has gone out to tender for a Development Partner for a district heat network using waste heat from Thames Water’s Hogsmill Sewage Treatment Works with an estimated value of £432 million (inc VAT).

Chair of South East Water Chris Train,has resigned after MPs on the EFRA Committee have today declared it has no confidence in the Chief Executive or Board of South East Water (SEW) to address the company’s multiple and ongoing failures and protect residents from disruption, highlighted by the major recent water outage in Tunbridge Wells.

Plymouth City Council has announced the appointment of a Development Partner for its proposed £4.2 billion (inc VAT) heat network based on a waste heat source from South West Water Central Plant.

United Utilities has today announced an equity issue to raise gross proceeds of c. £800 million to fully fund the equity element of c. £2.5 billion of its incremental investment for the AMP8 period 2025-30.

South East Water has been given a £76,000 penalty for a water supply breach - human error was blamed as enough water to fill 300,000 baths was taken without an Environment Agency licence.