A pioneering project starting today in Wigan Borough will see – for the first time in the North West – two essential utility upgrades combined into one coordinated programme of roadworks. The joint Cadent and United Utilities scheme could become a model for future collaborative upgrades.

Technology platform Kraken and Portsmouth Water have announced the launch of The Water Lab to improve customer experience across the utilities sector.

A number of specific water-related risks are among the 89 threats in the latest National Risk Register (NRR) published today which sets out the government’s latest assessment of key risks to the United Kingdom.

The National Digital Twin programme, part of Centre for Digital Built Britain, wanted to create an interactive demonstrator tool to help show how connected digital twins can make energy, water and telecoms infrastructure more resilient to flooding due to climate change.

The UK utility sector has moved another step closer to a single, shared Priority Services Register (PSR) for the UK which will help companies look after vulnerable customers.

The North London Waste Authority (NLWA) is going out to tender with a minor works framework for civil engineering services to facilitate successful delivery of the North London Heat and Power Project in Edmonton  worth an estimated £10 million.

The UK’s safe digging industry is seeing its best performance to date - LSBUD, the UK’s leading online safe digging resource, saw more than 3.4 million searches for underground pipes and cables pass through its central system in 2021.

Anglian Water is launching 54 new Level 3 and 4 operational apprenticeship positions encouraging people to consider working within the utilities industry.

The UK Regulators Network, working with consultants Black & Veatch, has published a report on the extent of infrastructure data sharing currently taking place across the transport, water, energy and telecoms sectors.

Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell has said the process of renationalising the water sector would begin during the first 100 days of a Labour government.