Ofwat has set out additional guidance for water companies on its expectations for how they should propose price control deliverables at the upcoming 2024 price review for the 2025-30 investment period.
The updated roadmap for the Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP) plan for long-term WINEP improvement has now been published.
Ofwat’s Final Determinations on the water companies’ AMP7 Business Plans have allowed a total spend of £51 billion for 2020-25 - £ 6 billion less than the sum originally proposed by the companies.
Ofwat’s annual service delivery report for 2018-19 has found that there is a real gap between the best and worst performers in the sector, but that the industry as a whole has not kept up the progress made in earlier years and performance has stagnated.
Ofwat is looking to appoint two new Directors to further strengthen its focus on financial resilience and outcomes and customer engagement in the run up to the forthcoming 2019 Price Review.
Sulzer has launched a new global Center of Excellence (CoE) for Water Treatment Solutions - the CoE consolidates Sulzer’s wastewater treatment expertise in a unified and global manner.
“SAS (Surplus Activated Sludge) is a bit weird and can do odd things,” says Stuart Chatten, Lead Bioresources Technician at Whitlingham Water Recycling Centre (WRC), one of Anglian Water’s principal centres for processing sewage, serving a population of 400,000.
Owen Mace has taken over as Director of the British Plastics Federation (BPF) Plastic Pipes Group on the retirement of Caroline Ayres. He was previously Standards and Technical Manager for the group.
PureTec Separations, the Ledbury-based water treatment engineering firm, has appointed Dan Norman as its new Sales Manager – Water Process Systems, supporting the company’s continued growth in the UK and international markets.