United Utilities has gone out to tender with an AMP7 framework contract for an inventory management partner worth an estimated £15.32 million in total.

Fitch Ratings agency is warning that the UK water sector remains under pressure – factors that continue to weigh on the ratings include uncertainty around the Competition and Markets Authority appeals, operational delivery on total expenditure (totex) and outcome delivery incentives (ODIs) and pandemic-related bad debts.

Laing O’Rourke will work with Thames Water on a £123 million project to ensure Beckton sewage works can cope with London’s growing population - it currently treats the wastewater of almost 4 million Londoners.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced a package of infrastructure works worth up to £1.5 billion to help kickstart London’s economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis.

An ambitious programme of water and energy conservation projects has been unveiled by the Greater Brighton city region as it bids to “grow back greener” from the lockdown crisis.

In a world first for wastewater treatment, Yorkshire Water will implement a new ammonia and phosphorus recovery process that cuts greenhouse gases and recycles waste material at one of its wastewater treatment works.