NI Water has once again flagged up its ongoing concerns over the impacts of reduced funding on planned infrastructure investment and reiterated the need for sustained investment over multiple Price Controls (18+ years).
Attendees at a special meeting of Mid Ulster District Council have been told that the full scale of the wastewater capacity issues across Northern Ireland will realistically take at least 12 - 18 years, or two to three Price Control periods, to address.
Northern Ireland Water is looking to procure a strategic Integrated Partnerships Framework to support the delivery of the remainder of its proposed water and sewerage capital investments up to 2021 and the following 6 year Business Plan to March 2027 worth up to £1.68 billion.
Northern Ireland Water is looking for experts to advise on economic regulatory matters throughout the PC15 price control process for the six-year period from 2015-16 to 2020-21 and to assist with aspects of the upcoming PC21 Business Plan.
UK water companies are invited to join an upcoming webinar which will explore how the sector can take indirect potable reuse (IPR) from concept to full-scale operational reality.
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.”