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.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Natural England has launched a new consultation on new, long-term environmental targets announced by the government.

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water is continuing to encourage its three million-plus customers to use water wisely in order to safeguard water supplies following the hottest June in Wales since records began in 1910.

United Utilities is planning to implement a temporary use ban affecting seven million people in the north-west of England from 5 August – the measure means customers will be banned from using hosepipes to water gardens or wash cars.