Ahead of the publication of Ofwat’s Final Determinations on the water companies’ AMP8 Business Plans due on 19th December, in an Expert Focus article for WaterBriefing Dale Foster and Adrian Heneghan from wastewater treatment specialists HUBER Technology take a look at another potential challenge looming on the horizon for the water sector going into AMP8.
If we took a short trip forward in time to 2040, and then looked back at how some organisations in the water industry successfully achieved Carbon Net Zero, it’s likely you’ll see a large four-letter word: NIGG.
Yorkshire Water’s progress on replacing roofs at its Dewsbury Sewage Treatment works is near completion.
New proposals by Ofwat look set to usher even more competition into the UK water sector, including plans to open up the market for increased water trading, energy generation from sewage sludge and more direct procurement of large-scale infrastructure investments like the Thames Tideway Tunnel.
Ofwat has today launched a major consultation setting out its preferred options for the future framework to regulate the role of markets in the water sector and the role regulation will play – and is calling for change in the industry.
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.”