(by Karma Loveday) Representatives of the Citizens Arrest Network last week visited the head offices of eight water companies with the...

(by Verity Mitchell) RSK, a holding company which provides environmental and engineering solutions through a large portfolio of companies, has reported full-year results to 6 April 2025. There is strong revenue growth, partly driven by acquisitions but revealing cost challenges to its margins. Revenue was £2.2bn, up 21% over the previous year. Net fee income after external project costs was £1.1bn, up 13%. Staff costs absorbed 76% of net fee income, resulting in group reporte

(by Karma Loveday) Law firm Leigh Day has filed a group claim in the High Court against the pollution of the Rivers Wye, Usk and Lugg....

(by Karma Loveday) The Environment Agency has published a supportive position statement on the use of desalination for public water...

(by Karma Loveday) The moratorium on housebuilding in North Sussex has been lifted following an agreement reached through Defra’s Water...

(by Karma Loveday) The Environment Agency (EA) has declared drought in the parts of Sussex supplied by South East Water, due to declining...

a) Summary (by Karma Loveday) The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has made the following provisional determinations (PDs) in the...

(by Karma Loveday) *Based on the Summary of provisional determinations  published this morning — more detail will be added once the full...

Retailer Wave and wholesaler Northumbrian Water have partnered to provide free water-saving services to 1,400 schools in the Northumbrian...

The Consumer Council for Water (CCW) will not now recommend small businesses are removed from the retail market. The confirmation came as...

Fifty-one environment projects in the areas served by Anglian Water, South West Water, Thames Water, Yorkshire Water and United Utilities...

Northumbrian Water pipped Wessex Water to the post for first place in the latest C-MeX survey of household customer experience, the full...

New environment secretary Emma Reynolds gave nothing away about ministers’ plans for water reform in her Labour Party conference speech...

Ofwat has published its consultation on the Blind Year Reconciliation for 2024-2025. This sets out its proposed adjustments to the revenues and Regulatory Capital Values (RCVs) of the companies now that it has details of actual performance for 2024-2025. These adjustments reflect the difference between Ofwat’s and the companies’ assumptions on how 2024-2025 would outturn. This is a normal regulatory process as the PR24 final determination was published before the financial ye

Thames has launched a first-of-its kind scheme to automatically enrol customers in financial difficulty onto its social tariff schemes....

The Purposeful Finance Commission (PFC) has called for an Olympic-style national champion for reservoirs and for new powers for regional...

Affinity Water’s current chief executive, Keith Haslett, will take over from Susan Davy as chief executive of Pennon Group, which owns...

The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee has pressed water minister Emma Hardy for more details on how a single...

London & Valley Water, the consortium of Thames’ creditors and potential investors, has submitted another revised and more conciliatory...

Pennon Group has released its trading statement for the six months ending September 2025, confirming that its performance for the full...

Liverpool’s metro mayor Steve Rotherham has unveiled a Vision for sustainable water management , to tackle regional challenges that are...

Defra has appointed Dan Corry and Allison Ogden-Newton OBE to its board for one-year terms.  Corry is chief economist at the Future...

Recent rain has brought some relief to drought-hit areas. Yorkshire Water said at the beginning of last week that its reservoir stocks...

The water sector is paying tribute to the creator of the sponge city concept, Professor Kongjian Yu of Peking University, after he was...

Water efficiency champion Waterwise marked two decades of impact at the end of September when it celebrated its 20th anniversary. Opening...

Defra is consulting until 16 December on amending Part G2 of the Building Regulations 2010 to drive more water efficiency in new homes.  ...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said its provisional determinations for the five water companies appealing their PR24...

WaterAid International has appointed two new independent members to its board. Professor Sheila Tlou is a global health leader and former...

Nature coalition Wildlife and Countryside Link (WCL) has said that, despite positive amendments to Part 3 of the Planning and...

CDP, the world’s largest independent environmental disclosure platform, has warned that businesses are leaving themselves exposed to...

Wave has reported reaching its five-year water saving target a year ahead of schedule. According to its 2024-25 Social and Sustainability...

Retailers have told Ofwat the current Retail Exit Code (REC) retail price caps for business customers are not delivering fair prices and...

Defra has published details of how it arrived at the conclusion that nationalising the water industry would cost £100bn. This was in...

The public continues to overwhelmingly support temporary water use restrictions during drought periods, Waterwise research for CCW and...

More areas in England are likely to join the five already in drought by declaring drought status over the coming weeks, the National...

The Insolvency Service has disqualified CIWEM chief executive Anna Daroy from serving as a company director for 11 years due to historic...

New and existing water company leaders will need to pass fitness and propriety tests set by Ofwat under new Special Measures Act powers...

Scottish Water came top and South West Water bottom of British Water’s 2025 Water Company Performance Survey, which asks contractors,...

The Environment Agency has issued 19 drought permits to Yorkshire Water , allowing it to release less water from 19 reservoirs to...

The Strategic Panel has reported a strong first year of delivery of its Roadmap to a flourishing market. This identified 31 conditions...

Ofwat is minded to approve a third round of code changes to reform the Market Performance Framework (MPF). It is undertaking a statutory...

The Strategic Panel and MOSL have called on Ofwat to modernise its approach to setting retail price protections for smaller customers. In...

Ofwat has confirmed that Anglian Water and South West Water must pay a total of £86.8m due to breaches of their legal obligations in...

Drinking water quality compliance (public water supply) was 99.94% in Scotland in 2024 – but the regulator criticised “too many avoidable...

There were few changes in performance rankings in the 2024-5 household complaints report from the Consumer Council for Water: Wessex and...

Ofwat is consulting until 10 October on introducing a change control process for a subset of price control deliverables (PCDs). PCDs set...

RIIO-3 draft determinations for UK gas distribution and transmission and electricity transmission networks are more favourable than the...

Welsh Water is to restructure its business, including by making up to 500 redundancies, as part of a two-year transformation programme....

Portsmouth Water has announced a new, strategic collaboration with key partners to deliver its AMP8 business plan, under which it will...

Water companies warned last week that the recent rain has done little to alleviate water resource challenges and urged customers to keep...