Southern Water says collaboration between partner agencies to protect and enhance the water quality of its 87 designated bathing waters is reaping its rewards along the region’s 700-mile coastline.

Affinity Water has rewarded Pace Construction, a developer and contractor specialising in new build homes and energy-efficient construction, as the first developer to secure an incentive payment of more than £60,000 through Ofwat’s Environmental Incentives Common Framework (EICF) audit.

Dwr Cymru Welsh Water has announced the launch of new collaborative partnerships with colleges in north Wales on to promote best practice in land and water management to safeguard drinking water sources now and for years to come.

Uisce Éireann has started works on a €22 million investment in a major infrastructure project to upgrade the wastewater network in Farganstown – the project in the wider Navan area is part of a national programme of targeted investment in water and wastewater networks to enable housing delivery.

United Utilities is getting work underway today on a further £270,000 investment to upgrade more than 3km of Oldham’s water mains network.

NI Water recently welcomed Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins on site to view the ongoing work at Annsborough Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW), outside Castlewellan, Co. Down.

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water is on track to invest c.£665 million in 2025/26, according to its newly released interim results for the first six months of AMP8 to 30 September 2025.