Sutton and East Surrey Water (SESW) is anticipating a £7 bill increase for customers in order to deliver the improvements set out in its AMP6 business plan.
MITIE, the strategic outsourcing company, has announced it has partnered with Leaksafe Solutions Ltd, which will see MITIE’s MiTec Technology Centre undertake the monitoring of the Leaksafe range of leak detection and prevention devices.
Northumbrian Water has pledged to invest around £1 billion in services to its North East customers between 2015 and 2020.
South West Water has revealed it plans to invest £850 million between 2015 and 2020 as it launches a consultation on its draft business plan.
Southern Water’s new Business Plan for the AMP6 period will cost £3 billion to deliver, it has announced, while customer bills will go up by no more than inflation.
Thames Water’s request for an interim price increase of £29 which potentially would come into effect in 2014/15 has raised some interesting questions about the figures in the utility’s recently published Draft Business Plan and the Business Plan process itself.
Spending on IT by Western European utilities will reach $12.7 billion a year by 2017, according to a new forecast report published by IDC Energy Insights.
Thames Water has asked Ofwat to consider increasing the limits on the prices it can charge its customers.
Engineering services group Renew Holdings has announced the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Lewis Civil Engineering for a cash consideration of £7.9m.
Northern Irish water treatment firm TES has announced a new partnership with Libyan firm Zulal Water Technology aimed at providing much needed medium –large scale wastewater treatment solutions to the Libyan market.
Albion Water, the first NAV (New Appointment & Variation) to have been established in1999 and now under the ownership of SDS Water Group, has appointed Andy Holland as its new Director of Business Development.
UK water companies are invited to join an upcoming webinar which will explore how the sector can take indirect potable reuse (IPR) from concept to full-scale operational reality.
James Sumsion, CEO of predictive water intelligence specialists Kohtari, says the water sector needs to take a giant leap forward, so that it can anticipate and act upon water quality issues - rather than merely react.
Ray Moulds, Sales Director at Flood Control International, takes a look at how automated sliding floodgates are supporting secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites.