Southern Water has gone out to tender with a multi-million pound contract for the Thanet Sewers rehabilitation phase 2 main works contract – the water company is seeking a contractor to complete the construction works.

Leading players in the infrastructure sector have today called for the next government to adopt ten new measures that will improve the delivery of UK infrastructure and boost economic productivity and growth.

A new pioneering asset management research report commissioned by the UK water industry says that UK water companies will need to significantly increase infrastructure investment - with significant implications for customers' bills.

The independent Committee on Climate Change(CCC) has warned MPs on the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee over the lack of information on critical infrastructure assets at risk of flooding in the UK.

Ofwat Chairman Jonson Cox has said that the upcoming PR19 Price Review “may offer very significant headroom either to improve the resilience of the service customers receive, or materially to cut their bills, or both.”

Macquarie has today announced that Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 2 (MEIF2), together with two other Macquarie-managed funds, have agreed to sell a combined 26.3 per cent interest in Kemble Water Holdings Ltd, the ultimate holding company of Thames Water Utilities Ltd.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has announced that £300 million will be invested in supporting research into the key STEM topics - science, technology, engineering and maths as part of today’s budget statement in the House of Commons. 

Flood prevention work in the UK was described as “fragmented, ..... inefficient and sometimes ineffective, and has let people down” in last week’s Parliamentary debate on future flood prevention. MPs heard that the UK needed to look at the Netherlands approach to flood risk management.

A £3.7m investment has been announced to enable researchers from the University of Sheffield’s Sheffield Water Centre, which contains the UK’s largest urban water research group, to develop new, more scientific ways to better manage distributed water infrastructure.

The Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership has launched a major plan to tackle flood risk and water supply for Lincolnshire.