Southern Water has secured additional equity investment to fund its ambitious £6 billion AMP8 investment programme over 5 years.

Southern Water is reporting a positive start to AMP8 with further improvements delivered across a number of key operational metrics and a clear Delivery Action Plan to address areas of underperformance, according to its newly released unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2025.

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

Thames Water has announced it is seeking a further drawing of £157 million in July 2025 from the initial £1.5 billion loan available under the group's liquidity facility.

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.

Anglian Water has announced that the company’s shareholders have provided unconditional and legally binding commitments to inject £500 million into the Anglian Water Group, pro-rata to their current shareholdings.

The House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee is today launching a new inquiry, Reforming the Water Sector, to scrutinise the breadth of issues confronting the water sector.

Ofwat has denied agreeing a £150 million dividend payment by Thames Water, according to a report on the BBC Radio 4 Today news programme this morning.

Professor Dieter Helm has published a highly critical and detailed analysis of Thames Water, describing the deeply indebted utility as “a disaster of its own and the regulators’ making” and “badly managed and financially engineered.”

Thames Water says that based on the feedback provided by Ofwat to Thames Water to date, the regulatory arrangements that would be expected to apply to Thames Water in AMP8 make its PR24 plan uninvestible.