Southern Water’s AI-enabled smart sewer system led to more than 4,000 interventions in the past year, enabling its teams to remove blockages.
Upgrades to infrastructure by Southern Water paired with innovative new technology and automated intelligence have dramatically reduced storm overflows from Terminus Road in Cowes, Isle of Wight.
Anglian Water has gone out to tender with a major AMP8 contract for sewer level network monitoring sensors worth an estimated value of £140.4 million (inc VAT).
Thames Water has invested £20 million to make its sewers smart and prevent flooding and pollutions - 20,000 monitors across the Thames Water region have helped identify and remove 11,500 blockages between March 2021 – March 2024.
Southern Water is getting works get underway later this month in Whitstable, as AI technology is added to the utility’s underground network in an effort to cut storm overflows.
Northumbrian Water has started a ground-breaking £20 million project which is set to significantly reduce spills from storm overflows across Tyneside.
Southern Water is investing £15 million in artificial intelligence and 22,000 state-of-the-art monitors to dramatically cut the impact of fatbergs and other blockages that currently cause hundreds of pollution incidents every year.
Yorkshire Water is planning three innovative smart wastewater network pilots, which will better inform a systematic approach to the management of Yorkshire’s wastewater.
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.
With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, then environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”
ERG, the leading supplier of odour control systems and industrial gas cleaning & thermal systems, has been awarded the coveted King’s Award for Enterprise.