Thames Water Utilities Ltd was ordered to pay £12,323 by Bracknell Magistrates Court on Wednesday for causing the pollution of a tributary of the River Thames twice within the space of two years.

United Utilities has said that in the month since a hosepipe ban was introduced, customers in the North West have saved a staggering 3.3 billion litres - the equivalent of 16 baths worth per household.

Wessex Water has announced plans to invest more than £20m to increase renewable energy generation from biogas at its Taunton sewage treatment works.

Almost 200 homes in Dorset have been safeguarded from flooding thanks to a programme of works to improve the county’s sewerage system.

Monsal, the UK’s leading advanced digestion technology business that turns waste into renewable energy, has secured £14 million of expansion capital from Waste Resources Fund L.P (WRF), managed by FourWinds Capital Management, an investment management firm that specialises in natural resources and commodities.

Morrison Utility Services, the leading service provider in the UK and Ireland utilities sector, has published its end-of-year accounts for the year ended 31 March 2010 revealing a confirmed order book value of £1.5 billion, and up to £2.9 billion if existing contracts are extended.

Yorkshire Water and its contract partners Mott MacDonald Bentley have confirmed work is progressing well on the £750,000 project to repair a stretch of sewage pipe which runs along Whitby Harbour.

Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure Group, has published its latest financial results for the half-year ended 26 June 2010.