Following the Environment Agency’s announcement of drought across the East Anglian area, Essex & Suffolk Water is introducing a Temporary Use Ban, also known as a hosepipe ban, for customers across the entire supply area.

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water has thanked customers across mid and south Ceredigion, north Pembrokeshire and north Carmarthenshire for reducing their water use following the introduction of a Temporary Hosepipe Ban.

Yorkshire Water has begun work on projects in the villages of Hebden and Malham in North Yorkshire to reduce the number and frequency of discharges from the sewer network into the River Wharfe and River Aire, respectively.

Southern Water will start work in September on a £2.3 million water mains replacement scheme in West Sussex - the village of Cocking is set to benefit from a major programme of water mains replacements.

Uisce Éireann has announced the start of preliminary works for a major project to upgrade the wastewater network in Waterford, supporting sustainable growth as Waterford City continues to grow and develop.

Uisce Éireann has completed works on the first phase of a €3.5 million project to upgrade Mitchelstown’s wastewater infrastructure.

Complaints escalated to the Consumer Council for Water (CCW) by business customers surged by almost a third, according to the watchdog's annual Business Customer Complaints Report. Billing remains the biggest source of complaints, accounting for 90% of cases escalated to CCW.