A giant countdown clock is on display in Southern Water’s Operational Control Centre – ticking down the days until the start of the Environment Agency’s bathing water season.

Yorkshire Water is investing £3 million in its Rainton wastewater treatment works in North Yorkshire to improve water quality in the river Swale and its tributaries.

Uisce Éireann is getting ready to start work on a major water network upgrade in Athlone to support future development within the town.

Scottish Water is progressing work on a £5 million upgrade at its McDonald Road Waste Water Pumping Station in Edinburgh – the latest phase has seen the installation this week of a nine-tonne screw pump into a deep underground chamber.

Portsmouth Water has begun a £4 million comprehensive environmental study this week to assess and implement actions necessary to ensure the sustainability of its future water abstraction.

Northumbrian Water has invested £5.7 million in upgrades at two of its sewage treatment works to protect a local watercourse in North Yorkshire.

Yorkshire Water is set to begin the first phase of a £1.5 million project to replace approximately 3.5km of water mains in Laisterdyke, Bradford, from 7 April next week.

Uisce Éireann is progressing work on its multi-million-euro Clonmel Water Supply Upgrade - more than 4km of a new 15km water main has now installed along the R689 Fethard Road with further pipe laying works also underway.