A coalition of nature groups has released an analysis of water company AMP8 business plans for the next five years showing that the water industry will spend just 2% of its total budget - 5% of the enhancement budget ( £2 billion) – on natural solutions.

Following a recent consultation on the draft roadmap, the independent Strategic Panel, the most senior industry group in the business retail water market, has published its final Roadmap to a Flourishing Market. 

The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) is seeking permission to intervene in a Court of Appeal case relevant to how regulations in place to protect and improve water are put into practice.

Water sector regulator Ofwat has gone out to tender with a contract for Innovation Fund delivery partners 2025-30 worth up to an estimated £18.4 million.

Today marks the start of a four day hearing at the Competition Appeals Tribunal in a case brought by Professor Carolyn Roberts against six water companies for allegedly misleading regulators about the number of discharges of untreated sewage made into rivers, lakes, coastal areas, and other waterways causing damage to the environment.

The National Infrastructure Commission is calling on the Government to set clear standards of resilience that infrastructure operators must maintain in the face of sudden shocks.

The Government says it has taken further steps this week to attract billions in private-sector investment into the water sector to rebuild broken water infrastructure and clean up Britain’s rivers, lakes and seas.