Scottish Water Business Stream Ltd has awarded a contract for customer tracing services worth an estimated £1.8 million.
Kettering-based firm Hydrosave UK Ltd has won the contract to provide gap and trace management services, which involves tracing commercial occupiers of premises. The company was one of two suppliers in the bidding for the work.
Business Stream is the water retail business set up in 2006 by Scottish Water to compete in Scotland's non-domestic water market. The company is planning to compete in the English retail market when it opens in April 2017.
Uniwater has acquired Hy-Ram Engineering, a specialist in tooling, products and hire for the water sector, based in Mansfield, England.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.

Southern Water has released film and images showing what it’s like to walk inside Hampshire’s expanded Yew Hill underground reservoir for the very last time, before it gets filled with water.
Hear how United Utilities is accelerating its investment to reduce spills from storm overflows across the Northwest.