The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has launched a major new consultation on the development of a national policy statement for water resources and the types of infrastructure that it will apply to.

Ofwat has signalled a new crack-down on leakage - the water sector regulator is challenging water companies to save up to 170 billion litres of water a year by targeting leaks.

Ofwat has published its new Code for the Adoption Agreements developers or self-lay providers enter into when they want an appointed water and sewerage company to take over responsibility for infrastructure they have constructed.

Water industry regulator Ofwat is warning that water companies must do more to plan for the long-term if they are to have the financial resilience to deal with challenges they face now and in the future.

Ofwat will today begin consulting on proposals to adjust the price controls for three of the eighteen water companies in England and Wales, to be applied from April of next year.

The European Commission has launched an online public consultation as the first phase of the re-evaluation process for the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive – with a planned completion date of Q1 2019.

MOSL has published its second CEO Quarterly Market Review to reflect on the first six months since the opening of the non-household retail water market on 1 April 2017.

Ofwat has agreed to what is described as a “major change in policy” to the credit arrangements put in place in the Wholesale Retail Code (WRC) for retailers in the competitive non-household business market.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), environmental regulator of Irish Water, is warning that serious deficiencies in the treatment of wastewater in Ireland are causing unacceptable risks to environment and public health.