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Tunnellingunderrailway1Scottish Water has been overcoming significant engineering challenges on two key stages of construction on a £120m investment in the drinking water network serving customers in Ayrshire and East Renfrewshire.

South East Water’s website can now talk to customers in more than 60 different languages, to assist those with additional needs or where English is not their first language.

Southern Water has acknowledged shortcomings in its bottled water provisions on Isle of Wight to address a problem with loss of supply and low water pressure in Ryde on Sunday, saying it had "taken on board the concerns that we did not have water available quickly enough."

Yorkshire Water has been announced as a major sponsor and the first principal corporate supporter of Hull's year as the UK City of Culture 2017.

FTSE 100, Midlands-based company Severn Trent has recruited the largest number of apprentices it has ever taken on, tripling the size of last year’s intake.

Scottish Water is about to start work on the construction of a brand new water treatment plant to supply around 1,000 people as part major improvements to the water treatment and supply network on the island of Whalsay.

North Midland Construction PLC has returned to proft, according to its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2016.

Yorkshire Water has been fined £350,000 for illegally discharging sewage that polluted a Harrogate watercourse.

Irish Water has lodged a planning application with Donegal County Council for the upgrade of the Ballybofey/Stranorlar Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Work is underway to revamp over three kilometres of sewer pipes across Nottingham - the £850,000 investment by Severn Trent Water will replace some of the city’s oldest sewer pipes with brand new ones.

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