Communities and infrastructure are being left at risk of flooding due to the government’s failure to properly fund internal drainage boards (IDBs), according to the District Councils’ Network (DCN).
Southern Water has awarded two new capital delivery framework contracts to eight companies for the AMP8 control period covering 2025 to 2030.
Costain has landed a £6.6M contract to upgrade two Thames Water strategic treatment assets in Hertfordshire.
An excavator being used for a Bam Nuttall-led coastal defence scheme has been left underwater off the town of Aberaeron in west Wales after an electrical fault forced workers to abandon it to the waves.
United Utilities has shortlisted three applicants for the role of independent technical advisor on its £1.75bn Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme (Harp) in a contract worth £50M.
Southern Water has alerted the market that it will be procuring for a technical partner to help develop a scheme involving an 85km pipeline, associated treatment works and other infrastructure.
The Castlehill Aquagreen has been completed as part of the £28M Holderness Drain Flood Alleviation Scheme (FAS) and will store water under flood conditions and release it slowly into the Holderness Drain.
Anglian Water has started market engagement for £5bn of works for its Fens and Lincolnshire reservoir projects.
Ofwat has proposed that Thames Water, Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water pay a combined £168M in fines for failures in management of their wastewater treatment works and networks.
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