The week in water from The Water Report

New Bill seeks to make public bodies support the delivery of green goals

Public bodies including Ofwat would have a statutory objective to support national green targets under legislation introduced in...

Sep 8, 20241 min read

Scottish Water’s decision not to price up to the regulatory cap in 2022-3 and 2023-4 prevented 40,000 households entering water poverty,...

Sep 8, 20242 min read

An environmental watchdog has called for action from the Scottish Government, the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) and...

Sep 8, 20242 min read

Northern Ireland's government came under fire this week from the UK’s national environmental watchdog for failure to publish an...

Sep 8, 20242 min read

“This gap needs to be closed,” Thames Water told Ofwat as it responded last week to its PR24 Draft Determination (DD). It was referring...

Sep 1, 20242 min read

Water and energy efficiency pioneer, the 50L Home Coalition, is to undertake a pilot project in London to test the possibility of...

Sep 1, 20241 min read

Ofwat is consulting until 25 September on its view that a new minority owner at Portsmouth Water and Leep Networks does not pose any...

Sep 1, 20241 min read

Spring, the UK water innovation centre of excellence, and Ofwat have partnered to publish a vision for better knowledge sharing in the...

Sep 1, 20241 min read

Flood and drought warnings will get a hi-tech boost under plans unveiled by the government. A new £40m Floods and Droughts Research...

Sep 1, 20241 min read

As Thames rebuffed Ofwat’s draft determination as ‘not investible’, infrastructure investors were preparing to make non-binding offers...

Sep 1, 20241 min read