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.

Essex & Suffolk Water is preparing to start work on constructing a new 19.5km raw water pipeline that will add resilience to customers’ supplies across Essex and protect the environment.

North East supply chain businesses are calling for a collaborative approach to tackling climate change impact and developing skills and value for the region in a new report launched today.

United Utilities has completed the mammoth task of cleaning more than 500 water tanks across the region, ensuring customers’ taps continue to flow with high quality water.

Cyngor Sir Ceredigion County Council has awarded Bam Nuttall the contract for the Aberaeron Harbour coastal defence construction scheme with an estimated total value of £31.59 million.