Sir Adrian Montague, CBE, Chairman of Thames Water has written to the Rt Hon Alistair Carmichael MP, Chair of the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee to confirm that the water company’s Board has decided to maintain its ‘pause’ on management retention payments.
More than £4 million of potential bonuses were blocked by Ofwat’s new rule on water bosses’ performance related pay in the last financial year as firms chose to comply, according to the water sector economic regulator’s latest performance related executive pay report published today.
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is warning that piecemeal regulators appear to be missing in action as failing water sector left to flounder, saying that regulators must provide much more clarity on plans to improve the financial precarity of the sector.
Environment Agency Minister Steve Reed has asked Ofwat to assess £1.3 million payments to Yorkshire Water CEO Nicola Shaw “as a matter of urgency”.
“SAS (Surplus Activated Sludge) is a bit weird and can do odd things,” says Stuart Chatten, Lead Bioresources Technician at Whitlingham Water Recycling Centre (WRC), one of Anglian Water’s principal centres for processing sewage, serving a population of 400,000.
Owen Mace has taken over as Director of the British Plastics Federation (BPF) Plastic Pipes Group on the retirement of Caroline Ayres. He was previously Standards and Technical Manager for the group.
PureTec Separations, the Ledbury-based water treatment engineering firm, has appointed Dan Norman as its new Sales Manager – Water Process Systems, supporting the company’s continued growth in the UK and international markets.
bNovate has launched BactoCloud, a secure cloud-based platform that connects and manages its BactoSense instruments, enabling real-time monitoring and optimization of microbial water quality.