As part of our Expert Focus series, Neal Edmondson, Client Director for Water at consultancy firm BFY Group, takes an in-depth look at Stockholm-headquartered global investment group EQT’s investment in Yorkshire Water – and why this moment matters more than it might appear.

Thames Water has announced the launch today of a ninth set of consent requests relating to the continued availability of the Super Senior Issuer funding - if granted, the consents will allow the company to draw a further £205 million of the Facility in April 2026.

Northumbrian Water Group has confirmed a £400 million equity investment to support delivery of its business plan for the current five-year regulatory period (AMP8), its largest and most ambitious plan for customers and the environment.

Yorkshire Water has announced that EQT has agreed to acquire a 42% stake in Kelda Holdings Limited, the parent company of Yorkshire Water, in a move that signals confidence in the water company’s plans for the future.

American investors are increasingly circling one of the most expensive and unresolved environmental liabilities in the United States: PFAS contamination.

Thames Water has issued its fifth consent requests for Super Senior Issuer Funding from the initial £1.5 billion available under its super senior liquidity facility - Thames Water Utilities Ltd has so far drawn £872 million of the facility.

CK Infrastructure, the owner of Northumbrian Water, has re-entered the bidding process for Thames Water and approached the water sector regulator Ofwat to say it is ready to submit its own rescue package, according to a report in The Sunday Times at the weekend.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has set out how it estimated that nationalising the water industry would cost approximately £100 billion.

Anglian Water has confirmed that its shareholders have now injected £300 million of equity into the group.

Dwr Cymru Cyfyngedig (DCC) / Welsh Water, the largest water and sewerage company in Wales and the sixth largest operating in England and Wales, is inviting organisations in the wider water sector to register their interest in a major upcoming £667 million Design-Build-Finance scheme.