About us
THE WATER REPORT is a monthly publication launched in 2014 in response to UK water market reform. It is available in print and/or as a pdf emailed to your inbox.
We focus exclusively on the UK water and sewerage industry, providing thorough reports and in-depth research and features on topical issues.
We specialise in coverage of policy and regulation in the body of the magazine and have a dedicated section – Competition Watch – to keep readers up to date on retail and upstream competition developments.
Every Monday we provide an online bulletin – The week in water –with to-the-point reporting of the week's top stories in water sector regulation, policy and competition.
Who reads it?
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Water companies – WASCs and WOCs throughout the UK
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Competitive retailers – out-of-area incumbents and new entrants
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Governments and political groups – national, regional and local
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Economic and quality regulators
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Trade bodies
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Consumer and other interest groups and NGOs
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Major non-household customers
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Investors and financiers
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Infrastructure contractors, construction companies and related suppliers and product manufacturers
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Advisors and other service providers – e.g. consultancies, IT and technical providers, law firms, PR companies, recruitment companies etc.
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Overseas readers – anyone with an interest in UK water and its pioneering water competition.
THE WATER REPORT covers:
Abstraction
Affordability
AMPs
Asset ownership, operation, maintenance and management
Bathing water quality
Billing and payment
Catchment management
Climate change
Company strategy and performance
Complaints
Customer engagement
Customer service
Data
Drainage and SUDs
Drinking water quality and standards
Environmental quality, stewardship and protection
Finance and investment
Flooding
Governance
Infrastructure
Innovation
IT & systems
Leakage
Legislation
Licence issues
M&A
Metering
Ownership
Pan-utility issues and insights from other sectors
Planning
Policy - national and European
Prices and price setting
Regional developments
Regulation
Resilience
Resources and resource management
River water quality
Shale gas
Special infrastructure projects
Tariffs
The Competition Watch section covers:
Access pricing
Accounting separation
Anglo-Scottish market interaction
Charging
Company strategy and performance
Connections
Consumer protection
Customer service
Competition law and authorities
Data, data flows and bad data
Finance and funding
Financial settlement
IT & systems
Legislation
Level playing field
Licensing
HR
Operational rules
Open Water/Ofwat work programme
Market development
Market codes, rules and governance
Market operator
New Appointments and Variations (inset appointments)
New entrants
Non-household customers – eligibility, demands and views
PR19
Registration and switching
Regulation
Retail culture
Retail exit
Retail margins
Scotland’s experience
Tariffs
Trading
Upstream competition
Welsh opt out
Water Act 2014 - policy and implementation
Wholesale/retail separation
Wholesale/retail interaction and operation
