The water industry is investing billions to end sewage pollution from CSOs, but regulators and the public want quicker progress and clearer commitment. In the run-up to PR24, water companies need practical ways to demonstrate success, build trust, and educate stakeholders about their role in reducing CSO reliance.
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The stormwater overflows scandal has forced water companies to rethink drainage and wastewater management, but what options and innovations are available and when might they be delivered?
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Utilities and process industries are investing billions of euros across the globe every year in modernizing their assets, making them safer, more efficient, and less harmful to the environment. As well as the ever-present need to maintain and improve, industries are responding to the societal imperative to decarbonize, coupled with tightening asset management standards and regulations.
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The Utility Week Awards 2022 Review showcases the winners and finalists across all 13 categories, along with comments from Greg Jackson, chief executive of Utility of the Year, Octopus Energy, and our Industry Champion Jonson Cox.
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This educational guide looks in detail at the problem of CSO spills, how technology can help address the issue and the various other benefits that can be gained through the use of sewer modelling.
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What are the challenges facing water companies both in the UK and Europe when it comes to addressing pollution? This new report sets out the environmental challenges facing the sector and the opportunities to improve water quality and rebuild public trust.
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What are utilities companies doing to strengthen the resilience of their assets and their processes to protect against cyber attacks – and are they going far enough? This report sets out the challenges facing the sector, the security practices being put in place and how the regulatory framework should reflect these investment needs.
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Contractors have a critical role to play in helping utilities companies future proof their networks. Ronan Clancy writes for Utility Week about the steps supply chains can take to meet this challenge.
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Asset management experts from Thames and SES Water set out key challenges and potential enablers of proactive maintenance regimes as they strive to replicate ‘suspiciously low’ leakage levels achieved in the Netherlands.
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Anglian Water’s head of strategic investment management reflects on the key recommendations and considerations outlined in Ofwat’s Asset Management and Maturity Assessment – or AMMA.
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Find out how your service software provider compares in the 2022 Gartner MQ for Field Service Management.
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This new report explores the sector’s current appetite for increased autonomy across field teams and how this aligns with broader customer engagement strategies.
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Tapping into the potential of smart water meters and delivering a smarter future for the UK’s water supply network will require a collaborative, ‘all-hands-on-deck’, approach according to Everflow founder and CEO Josh Gill.
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As Affinity Water completes solar array pilots at its Chertsey and Walton treatment works, the firm’s head of energy management Greg Cameron reflects on the challenge of developing a new energy strategy to simultaneously drive performance and weather the highest increase in bills on record.
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Skewb Climate managing director Ruta Blazeviciute explains how collaboration between the digital education firm and utilities are levelling up climate and social outreach among the next generation via bespoke video games.
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The fourth industrial revolution, with widespread rollout of the so-called Internet of Things, has been well publicised and long anticipated. There can be little doubt that, with UK utilities and their supply chain partners under increasing pressure to deliver more for less, smart devices that generate actionable insight are a must-have.
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Asset management experts from Thames and SES Water set out key challenges and potential enablers of proactive maintenance regimes as they strive to replicate ‘suspiciously low’ leakage levels achieved in the Netherlands.
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Yorkshire has added a novel sludge screen to a wastewater treatment site that, if successful, will be rolled out to other locations. Dubbed 'The Beast', the screen was developed in the US to filter sludge directly from a tanker rather than via a holding tank.
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As utilities navigate the challenging path to decarbonise by 2050, this research report explores how process optimisation can empower the workforce to “fail forward” and drive improvements across all business areas.
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As utilities navigate the challenging path to decarbonise by 2050, this research report explores how process optimisation can empower the workforce to “fail forward” and drive improvements across all business areas.
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This new report explores the sector’s current appetite for increased autonomy across field teams and how this aligns with broader customer engagement strategies.
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Urgent action is needed from water companies due to the combined pressures of increasing consumption and climate change. This report explores the current state of play for water efficiency and whether the sector is doing enough to engage with customers and encourage demand reduction.
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Dr. Robert Bornhofen – director of innovation at District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) – outlines the approaches and attitudes that have underpinned the rollout of smart wastewater solutions across America’s capital.
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As Affinity Water completes solar array pilots at its Chertsey and Walton treatment works, the firm’s head of energy management Greg Cameron reflects on the challenge of developing a new energy strategy to simultaneously drive performance and weather the highest increase in bills on record.
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Anglian Water has announced a 12-month pilot project with Norwegian technology firm Infotiles to trial AI-driven software in water treatment and recycling processes.
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Contractors have a critical role to play in helping utilities companies future proof their networks. Ronan Clancy writes for Utility Week about the steps supply chains can take to meet this challenge.
Opinion
Asset management experts from Thames and SES Water set out key challenges and potential enablers of proactive maintenance regimes as they strive to replicate ‘suspiciously low’ leakage levels achieved in the Netherlands.
Analysis
Yorkshire has added a novel sludge screen to a wastewater treatment site that, if successful, will be rolled out to other locations. Dubbed 'The Beast', the screen was developed in the US to filter sludge directly from a tanker rather than via a holding tank.
News
Contractors have a critical role to play in helping utilities companies future proof their networks. Ronan Clancy writes for Utility Week about the steps supply chains can take to meet this challenge.
Opinion
As Affinity Water completes solar array pilots at its Chertsey and Walton treatment works, the firm’s head of energy management Greg Cameron reflects on the challenge of developing a new energy strategy to simultaneously drive performance and weather the highest increase in bills on record.
Comment
As utilities navigate the challenging path to decarbonise by 2050, this research report explores how process optimisation can empower the workforce to “fail forward” and drive improvements across all business areas.
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This research report explores the barriers that are hampering UK utilities’ ability to engage with customers on their own terms across the billing and payment cycle through increased flexibility, tailored services and real-time communications channels.
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Urgent action is needed from water companies due to the combined pressures of increasing consumption and climate change. This report explores the current state of play for water efficiency and whether the sector is doing enough to engage with customers and encourage demand reduction.
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This major new report examines how utilities are approaching their digital journey, and what the challenges are to adopting new technologies and a fresh approach to data.
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As utilities navigate the challenging path to decarbonise by 2050, this research report explores how process optimisation can empower the workforce to “fail forward” and drive improvements across all business areas.
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Utilities leaders have long spoken of a need to shift sector mindsets from a focus on assets to the needs of end users. But, how quickly is this transition happening in practice and is data playing the central role it needs to? This new report gauges the views of senior industry figures, from Eon, EDF, Western Power Distribution and UK Power Networks among others.
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The Utility Week Awards 2021 were finally revealed in March. See all of the winners, including a comment from Peter Simpson, chief executive of Utility of the Year, Anglian Water, as well as pictures from the night in this free download.
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