A new high-tech solar-powered streetlight, iLamp, made by British greentech firm Conflow Power Group, provides a unique solution to a growing global AI power and water consumption crisis.– reducing the carbon footprint to near-zero while supplying the world’s first autonomous AI distributed data centre.

A new report from the NHBC Foundation – the Water Compendium - reveals that the UK is facing a projected short fall in potable water of five billion litres per day by 2050.

The launch of the inaugural £25 million Water Efficiency Lab, part of Ofwat’s £100 million Water Efficiency Fund, is set to drive innovation and cut water use across England and Wales.

Yorkshire Water is building a new £6m service reservoir in Scotton, North Yorkshire to increase resilience of the drinking water network in the area, and to maintain pressure where demand is increasing.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has published a series of reports on future projections of water resource and demand in the UK.

SES Water has announced the successful completion of a pilot project using advanced smart technology - a machine-learning algorithm called Opir - designed to predict water demand and consumption with exceptional accuracy.

Southern Water has gone out to tender with a major AMP8 contract for Alternative Metering Services with an estimated value of £300 million.

 The Environment Agency is warning that whilst smart meters will help to ensure households and businesses use water wisely and through reducing leaks, this will not be enough - new supplies are needed and decisions about these need to be made now.

Uisce Éireann is urging the public to help reduce water use and report leaks across the Greater Dublin Area as demand has now reached unprecedented levels, with demand for water currently exceeding the capacity of the water treatment plants in the region.

MOSL is calling on Ofwat to ensure its determinations on the water companies’ AMP8 business plans at PR24 include an appropriate level of incentives/penalties to drive progress to help achieve Defra’s target of reducing water demand by 9% by 2038 in the non household retail market.