The European Commission is asking the United Kingdom to ensure that the Water Framework Directive is correctly enacted in national law.

The Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association has strongly objected to DECC’s plans to massively cut back government support for new AD plants.

Ofwat Chief Executive Cathryn Ross has flagged up the need for to find ways of driving more market testing of significant new infrastructure - and creating scope for this to be provided not by existing water companies but by others, if they can do it more efficiently. 

Ofwat has said it sees “big opportunities” in the upstream value chain, in particular for water resources and sludge, which are not being utilised right now - but is not convinced that "water companies always have the most efficient ways of doing things.”

Moody's is warning that the impact of reforms of UK water sector’s upstream activities, including water resourcing and sludge treatment and disposal, could potentially result in a “significant deterioration” in the credit quality of the water companies.

The Water Industry Commission for Scotland has today published a report on Scottish Water’s performance over the five year regulatory period 2010-15, together with its 2014-15 Performance Report for the final year of the 2010-15 regulatory period.

Ofwat has welcomed the outcome of the Competition and Markets Authority’s investigation into Bristol Water’s appeal against its price determination, saying  the CMA’s final decision “substantially supports and reaffirms Ofwat’s process for setting price limits during the 2014 price review.”