The Canal and River Trust (CTC) have announced an £89 million programme of engineering work, illustrating the scale of the resource required to protect and preserve the nation’s 250-year-old canal network.

Tideway Chair Sir Neville Sims has described the delivery model for the Tideway Tunnel supersewer as an “exemplar for securing long term private capital to provide large scale UK infrastructure alongside our approach to achieving significant wider social value.”

Future Water, the business support organisation for the UK water sector and the supply chain, is holding an online webinar next week to launch the Future Water Record Card.

Thames Water has awarded civil engineering and infrastructure specialist Barhale a £16.8 million contract to upgrade an important water trunk main running through the London Boroughs of Barnet and Enfield.

A BBC investigation has found that three water companies – Southern Water, Thames Water and Wessex Water, discharged sewage into rivers last year on hundreds of occasions - at a time when it was not raining.

National Infrastructure Commission Chair Sir John Armitt is warning that cutting leaks and reducing demand alone isn’t sufficient in the face of population growth and increasing drought risk - there also has to be significant investment in a broad mix of new infrastructure.

United Utilities has gone out to tender with an AMP8/9 Works-Framework-Build Only contract worth an estimated £6 billion in total.

Uisce Éireann has achieved significant milestones on its €139 million wastewater project in Arklow - approximately 80% of the works to the sewer network have been completed along the North and South quays, with over 1.8 km of new sewers already installed and all tunnelling works completed.

A state-of-the-art tunnel boring machine has completed the installation of a key part of a new trunk water main in Glasgow, beneath a motorway and railway, as part of a multi-million pound Scottish Water project which will benefit almost one million customers.

Southern Water has completed its £7.5 million project to provide a new water pipeline to the Isle of Sheppey - the entire project took less than a year.