The outlook for the UK water sector remains stable on expectations that it will maintain its solid performance until the end of the current five-year regulatory period in March 2015, says Moody's Investors Service in its Industry Outlook report on the sector published today.

Water industry regulator Ofwat has launched what it describes as an informal consultation on Thames Water’s price limits for 2014-15 –which could potentially result in a decrease, rather than an increase, for customers’ bills.

The Government is being formally challenged to review its decision on the Thames Tideway Tunnel.

A new report released today by Atkins which examines four possible future scenarios to determine how drivers such as climate change and population growth could affect the UK water industry over the next 40 years has raised  key issues about the direction the sector is likely to take.

In the second of a series of articles based on an extended interview with Waterbriefing at the recent Water Event in Birmingham, Mark Powles, Chief Executive of Business Stream, sets out his views on non-domestic retail competition in Scotland and the prospects for its introduction in England in 2017 – including issues of cherry-picking and prospects for new entrants.