Women make up around six per cent of the engineering work force in the UK and with National Women in Engineering Day next week (23 June) South East Water’s female engineers want to get the message out that engineering is not just a man’s world.

NI Water is beginning a major £4m water mains improvement programme for Ballymena and Ballyclare.

The Consumer Council for Water (CCWater) is urging elderly residents and people living alone to register a security password with their water and energy company to help thwart distraction burglars.

GCA, the Galliford Try Costain Atkins Joint Venture, has begun process commissioning the £200 million extension to United Utilities’ Liverpool wastewater treatment works.

Severn Trent Water and McDonald’s have joined forces to reduce sewer blockages by helping to educate staff about what they shouldn’t be pouring down sinks and drains at the food chain’s restaurants.

Scottish Water has become the first company in Scotland  - and the first water company in the world - to achieve recognition for its ‘world-class’ procurement standards.

Planning officers at Lancashire County Council have recommended that consent should be granted for one of the applications by oil and gas company Cuadrilla to explore for shale gas using hydraulic fracturing.