Water Resources East, Norfolk County Council, Anglian Water and The Nature Conservancy have joined forces to develop an integrated water management plan for Norfolk.

David Riley, Anglian Water’s head of carbon neutrality and chair of Water UK’s carbon working group says the water industry must utilise the skills offered by the supply chain if it is to meet its ambitious target of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2030.

Anglian Water Chief Executive Peter Simpson has been appointed co-chair alongside Colin Matthews, non-executive Chairman of EDF Energy, of the UK Corporate Leaders Group (CLG), a group of leading UK businesses who have come together to drive stronger ambition and effective acceleration on climate change action within the UK.

Taverham in Norfolk will be protected by the latest in innovative and sustainable flood prevention measures in the future as work on the East of England’s biggest sustainable drainage system (SuDS) gets underway this week.

Kier Group plc has this morning announced that it has attained preferred bidder status on two new long-term contracts with Anglian Water under its AMP6 programme, with a combined total value of up to £130 million. Both contracts start in 2015 and are expected to run for 15 years. 

Anglian Water looks set to roll out more pump optimisation in AMP6 following a successful project on its DMA water network using innovative automatic pump pressure technology which has generated annual cost savings of £28,000-plus.

From January 2014, Anglian Water will start investing around £500,000 on a scheme which will allow itto make adjustments to the water pressure in parts of Peterborough and the surrounding area.

Thames Water is coming under ongoing pressure with regard to the funding needed to financé the costs of building the Tideway Tunnel – last week MP Simon Hughes and format Ofwat Director-General Sir Ian Byatt questioned the proposals, while articles in the Guardian, the Times and the Financial Times also flagged up serious concerns on the subject.

Galliford Try Infrastructure is understood to be the main contractor for Anglian Water’s new £44million reservoir near Newton-on-Trent.

Anglian Water is starting work next month to protect the shorelines at Rutland reservoir as part of a £10 million, two year project, to secure more than 18km of shoreline at three drinking water reservoirs across the region.