The boss of a £15bn pension fund has thrown his weight behind the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project.
The Wales Pension Partnership (WPP) chair Mark Norris told New Civil Engineer that he is backing the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon scheme because it will put Welsh engineering in the global spotlight. The WPP, a group…
Water watchdog Ofwat has said companies need to “up their game” on cutting leakages after firms published lukewarm water management manifestoes.
Ofwat said the water companies’ draft water management proposals for next year (known as WRMP19) needed to do more to address water leakage in the long term. Snipe the…
Dredged sediment at Hinkley Point C site will be dumped into Welsh waters after the project obtained a marine licence for the disposal.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) approved the monitoring plan for the disposal of dredged material from the nuclear power station development site in the Bristol Channel into Welsh waters.…
Thames Water is to pay £120M back to its customers after failing to control water leakage across its network.
Industry regulator Ofwat said the water company’s board did not have sufficient oversight and control of the company’s leakage performance. The £120M is made up of a £65M payment on top of £55M…
Dogs, drones and smart meters are all being deployed to tackle the enormous amount of water the UK wastes.
Last week the Environment Agency piled pressure on water industry engineers to tackle the 3bn.l of water lost every day through leaking infrastructure. In its first major report on water resources in England,…
Water firm United Utilities has started its search for firms to deliver more than £800M of maintenance work across the North West.
The £824M framework is split into three streams, covering repairs, renewals and other specialist services for water and wastewater. From an initial six-year contract, winning bidders have the option…
Water industry engineers must stop infrastructure leakage or England could face serious water shortages by 2050, the Environment Agency has warned.
Around 3bn.l of water per day is lost to infrastructure leakages – enough water for 20M people – according to the Environment Agency, which has urged water companies to invest…
A $650M (£480M) project to build two water tunnels in California has been given the green light by district authorities.
The Santa Clara Valley Water District board of directors voted 4 to 3 on the tunnels which are part of the wider £12.5bn California WaterFix project to improve the infrastructure that…
Northern Ireland Water has kickstarted the procurement for its water and sewerage infrastructure framework, which is worth a total of £1.68bn.
The Integrated Partnerships Framework will support the delivery of the next Price Control period (PC21) business plan which will run from April 2021 to March 2027. It will also support…
Water regulator Ofwat told companies to be more transparent about finances and executive pay as it launched a consultation into the 2019 price review (PR19).
Water companies must be clearer about their dividend policies and explicitly set out, in their business plans for PR19 how their approach to paying dividends relates to…
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