Scottish Water is getting ready to start work on the third phase of an £11.5 million investment to upgrade a vital strategic rising sewer main between Renfrew and Glasgow - a temporary pipeline will once again be used to carry flows while the underground rising sewer main is relined.

Anglian Water's multi-million-pound water network – one of Europe’s biggest environmental projects and the most important in the company's history – has reached a major milestone of pipelaying completion across the entire southern stretch of its Strategic Pipeline.

Cambridge Water, part of South Staffordshire Water Plc, is launching its biggest mains rehabilitation project to date – the major scheme set to improve pipelines and save water.

In the second of a series of Expert Focus articles for WaterBriefing, Richard Broome, Managing Director at LSBUD, the UK’s leading online safe digging resource, explores the contradictory approach to safety in the water industry, highlighting the stark contrast between the protection of workers and the under-protection of assets.

Southern Water has launched a market engagement exercise seeking supply chain input ahead of going out to tender in Autumn 2025 with a contract for the construction and connection of the Andover Link Main (ALM) Pipeline worth an estimated £50 million.

Proposals for a set of pipelines to serve the new Havant Thicket Reservoir in Hampshire, which is being built, and will be operated, by Portsmouth Water, have been approved by Havant Borough Council’s Planning Committee.

Northumbrian Water is constructing a new sewer pipeline as part of an £11.2 million project to upgrade its wastewater network, which will help to protect the environment.

Thames Water has completed two major infrastructure projects in Swindon, with the £78 million investment future-proofing its waste and water network for residents.

Anglian Water engineers have reached the halfway point for pipelaying in the East of England multi-million-pound water grid – one of Europe’s biggest environmental projects.

Severn Trent is creating over 440 new jobs to kick off a major £415 million project that will see 870 miles of new water pipes being installed across the region - the most significant water industry investment in water pipes in the last 10 years.