Households and businesses supplied by South East Water continue to be without water or suffer water supply interruptions – a range of areas continue to be affected according to the latest updates published on the water company’s AquAlerter map pages on its website.

Steve Morris, Managing Director of HUBER Technology UK, takes a look at how the first year of AMP8 has panned out, some of the issues that are driving the water sector and where it might be heading for in 2026

Energy Minister Michael Shanks has announced that a first of its kind comprehensive Energy Resilience Strategy will be published next year to future proof the energy system to address the evolving risks the sector faces, including climate change impacts, cyber threats and geopolitical tensions.

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is warning that safety risks have increased, not decreased, in the eight years since the Grenfell Tower fire, in a new review, Building Safeguards.

The National Infrastructure Commission is calling on the Government to set clear standards of resilience that infrastructure operators must maintain in the face of sudden shocks.

Thames Water has said that its current performance is falling short of expectations due to deteriorating asset health, climatic events and cost pressures.

A new report says water reform must be a priority for the next government and that it should commission a comprehensive, independent review of water management, to report within its first twelve months.

The Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland (DWQR) has said that Scottish Water’s customers continue to receive a supply of very high quality drinking water which they can use with confidence - but is warning over failures in asset maintenance.

Future Water, the business support organisation for the UK water sector and the supply chain, is holding an online webinar next week to launch the Future Water Record Card.

The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has written to Ofwat expressing its concern about the present approach to managing ageing underground assets, highlighting a “lack of consistent cross-sector understanding of the rate of likely asset deterioration over time.”