Yearly Archives: 2022

Major energy and utilities employers reveal new working groups for cross-sector strategy goals

A report published last month details the successes achieved by the 30 employer organisations that form the Energy & Utilities Skills Partnership (EUSP) chaired...

Mike St Germain of WMFTS examines the dream scenario for a water treatment plant operator

What is the dream scenario for a water treatment plant operator? There can be little doubt that it is a facility running reliably, with...

Idrica deploys its solutions in northern Peru to help reduce non-revenue water

A pilot project to reduce drinking water losses in the network operated by EPS Grau, the water supplier in the Piura region of northern...

Water sector moves closer to easing water bill worries for millions of households

The Consumer Council for Water (CCW) has published a report charting the progress that has been made over the past year in delivering the...

Call for river stakeholders to ‘up their game’ to make rivers climate resilient

All river stakeholders in London need to improve their actions on tackling pollution that ends up in the city’s rivers and work together to...

Price Review 2024: Ofwat sets out framework to deliver better outcomes for customers and the environment

Ofwat has today (7 July) set out its draft methodology for the upcoming Price Review (PR24) with a focus on securing better outcomes for...

Cost of living research reveals people are avoiding washing to cut down on water use

Research from data solutions expert Sagacity shows two-thirds (66%) of the UK, 18.5 million households, are worrying about their ability to pay utilities bills...

Everflow appoints Head of Product to lead newly launched product team

Everflow, the UK’s fastest growing water supplier and the UK’s first carbon neutral water supplier, has announced the appointment of Jennifer Ioannidou as Head...

Saving energy and protecting the environment with the right compressed air solution

With Europe experiencing soaring energy prices, and compressed air accountable for between 12 to as much as 40 per cent of all the industrial...

AUMA recruiting multiple roles as company set to expand by 50 per cent  

AUMA Actuators Limited, an electrical engineering business which counts some of the UK’s largest water utility companies as customers, is recruiting for a range...

Leakage reduces thanks to sprint led by Morrison Water Services at Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival

A ground-breaking solution to tackling the challenges of water scarcity and demand identified by Morrison Water Services and Northumbrian Water has reduced leakage in...

Creative communications specialist joins WiseOnWater

WiseOnWater has further expanded its team, enabling even more services to be offered to clients while continuing to build new partnerships. The strategic marketing...

Anglian Water announces £65m support package for customers facing cost of living crisis

Anglian Water has announced a £65 million package of tailored affordability support for customers this year as the cost of living crisis worsens. The package...

Global environmental protection specialist helps ‘slow the flow’ by donating profits and planting one thousand trees 

A Yorkshire manufacturer of flood defence products donated profits to a local co-operative to support a natural flood management project in Leeds. Andel donated the...

EY announces appointment of Dr. Matthew Bell as Climate Change and Sustainability Services leader

The EY organization has appointed Dr. Matthew Bell as Global Leader of its Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS) team, as it continues to...

Scottish Water intelligent assets helping improve service and protect environment

Investment in Scottish Water’s intelligent asset base on its wastewater infrastructure, including remote sensors and data-driven insight, is set to improve its service to...

Faster power restoration prioritised for water infrastructure sites

Faster electricity restoration has been prioritised for water infrastructure sites, to help make sure people are not left without water for long, at the...

BigChange tech boosts Sapphire’s productivity by 100% on Severn Trent water contract

Sapphire Utility Solutions is using the mobile and cloud field service technology to transform the delivery of water network services to its customers. Supplied...

Half of utilities sector’s field workers feel neglected by company’s IT department

New research has highlighted a widespread breakdown of the relationship between IT departments and field service workers in the utilities sector, with half (50%)...

South West Water switches to 100% renewable source electricity in Net Zero drive

South West Water has taken a huge step towards becoming Net Zero by 2030 after switching to 100% renewable source electricity. The water company started...

Burton-upon-Trent flood defence work completes £30 million investment

The Environment Agency has completed additional flood defence work in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. The work, which started last summer in 2021, reduces flood risk to...

Water Industry Forum warns that without immediate change the sector faces an inability to meet Ofwat’s required regulatory outcomes

Water Industry Forum (WIF) has today (July 4, 2022) published a paper warning that the water sector needs to act differently to successfully deliver...

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