The Environment Agency (EA) has flagged up some key outcomes from its work during the last 12 months, including flood risk management successes and over £71 million of efficiency savings during the 2010-15 Spending Review period.

Water industry regulator Ofwat has launched a new consultation inviting views on how it should take forward its primary duty to further the resilience objective it gained through the Water Act 2014.

Water industry regulator Ofwat has flagged up a possible net detriment to customers in England in the range £10 million to £106 million (present value to 2025) as a result of the merger of Bournemouth Water with South West Water.

The Competition and Markets Authority  has published a statement outlining the issues it intends to investigate into the potential adverse impacts  on the takeover of Bournemouth Water by Pennon Group, owners of South West Water.

Ofwat has set out the final framework and assurance process for overseeing the quality of the information that the largest 18 monopoly water and wastewater and water only companies in England and Wales provide to their customers.

Ofwat has launched a new consultation on licensing and policy issues in relation to the opening of the non-household retail market in 2017. The lengthy and detailed 89 page consultation document, accompanied by a further 42 page document of supporting appendices, underlines the complex issues the regulator now has to reconcile in a relatively short time scale.

Ofwat’s Chief Executive says the UK water sector must think broadly about the resilience of water supply and sewerage systems in the long term - including ecosystems.