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.

The National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) has launched a new interactive online tool alongside the latest Infrastructure Pipeline update, kicking off a new era of infrastructure delivery.

Wessex Water is inviting contractors and investors to register their interest in attending an in-person initial industry briefing and launch event scheduled for Tuesday 9th September 2025 to be held in central London for the £414 million (inc VAT) Poole Water Recycling and Transfer SRO.

South West Water is seeking supply chain engagement with contractors and investors in the £1 billion Cheddar 2 Reservoir project – the water company is planning to hold an initial industry briefing and launch event scheduled for Tuesday 9th September 2025, to be held at a central London venue.

Southern Water has secured an offer of a equity support package totalling up to £1.2 billion from Macquarie, comprising an initial binding £655 million with up to a further £545 million intended to be committed by December 2025.

A highly critical new report by the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee is warning that a failing water sector in which “water companies increasingly look like financial institutions rather than businesses servicing monopolised critical infrastructure” is in need of “root and branch reform”.