United Utilities has started work on a £2.9 million project to upgrade nearly 11km of water network in the Hartford area of Cheshire.

Southern Water has opened the market engagement process for the Hampshire Water Transfer and Water Recycling Project. The utility is seeking feedback in particular from investors, construction and operating and maintenance contractors and/or potential consortia (which may involve their wider supply chain) that may be interested in the project.

Global engineering and built environment consultancy Arup, together with whole-lifecycle engineering services provider Binnies, has been appointed by Southern Water to help deliver the planning phase of the Thames to Southern Transfer project (T2ST).

Uisce Éireann has started work this month on the Crodaun Wastewater Network Upgrade, an important project that will significantly enhance wastewater capacity and support future growth and development in Celbridge.

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.