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Lee Tunnel 1Mott MacDonald is designing the eastern section of the Thames Tideway Tunnel on behalf of a joint venture of Costain Ltd, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche.

Thursday, 28 January 2016 12:26

Mayor opens Thames Water’s Lee Tunnel

The Mayor of London Mayor Boris Johnson today officially opened the Lee Tunnel, the first of two super sewers and deepest ever bored in London

New research published today by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills shows that over a third of vacancies in electricity, gas and water and construction are now due to skills shortages.

Anglian Water and its engineering partners, @one Alliance are hosting a major engineering jobs fair and networking event with global employers in Peterborough next month.

South East Water expects to have installed 375,000 water meters in total by 2020, which means almost 90 per cent of customers in its region will pay only for the water they use.

Portsmouth Water has selected Castle Water as its partner to provide billing and associated services for its business customers in the run-up to the introduction of competition in water retail services in 2017 – at which point the water company will exit the business retail market.

Anglian Water has said that a sewer leak which flooded a shop and caused traffic chaos in Cambridge was the result of fat entering the sewer system.

Leading global water technology provider Xylem Inc.  has announced an ambitious expansion plan and investment of US $35 million in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

Yorkshire Water Services Ltd has been fined £600,000 after an ageing sewage pipe burst and killed hundreds of fish in a Wakefield lake.

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water has confirmed that it has acquired two high profile reservoirs, Lisvane and Llanishen, in Cardiff.

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