The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has written to Ofwat expressing its concern about the present approach to managing ageing underground assets, highlighting a “lack of consistent cross-sector understanding of the rate of likely asset deterioration over time.”

A £1.2 million trunk main testing facility, a first for the UK water industry, is helping Thames Water improve the efficiency of its water network investment programme.

Asset health and resilience are high on the agenda in the 2024 Price Review process and beyond. For a supply chain take on the issues, HUBER Technology’s International Sales Manager Andreas Heim, Safe Access Solutions explores the reasons why the technology specialist is seeing a growing level of interest and uptake of its stainless steel doors in water and wastewater applications.

Asset health and resilience are high on the agenda in the 2024 Price Review process and beyond. For a supply chain take on the issues, HUBER Technology’s International Sales Manager Andreas Heim, Safe Access Solutions explores the reasons why the technology specialist is seeing a growing level of interest and uptake of its stainless steel doors in water and wastewater applications.

Spring, the water sector’s innovation centre of excellence, together with Innovate UK KTN, which connects innovators with new partners, has launched a new water competition - the registration process is now open for innovators to submit their entries.

Northumbrian Water has gone out to tender with an AMP7 contract for an upgrade to its Howdon Sewage Treatment Works (STW) worth an estimated £120 million in total.

A new research study is warning that climate change and increasing populations could be drastically reducing the resilience of wastewater infrastructure in the UK.

Scottish Water has gone out to tender with a contract for asset inspection, testing and portfolio management worth an estimated £140 million.

Asset health and resilience are set to be key features in the upcoming Price Review in 2024. In an Expert Focus article for WaterBriefing, Kevin Ockwell, Sales Director from wastewater technology specialist HUBER Technology takes a look at the role strategic equipment hires can play in predictive maintenance activities and explores the issues from a supplier point of view.

A new study by Dr Atai Winkler of PAM Analytics shows how modelling the risk of pollution from wastewater pumping station sites using alarm data and asset maintenance data can help identify sites with high risks of pollution so that maintenance resources can be targeted to these sites.