New £5m competition targets hidden leaks in homes and businesses
Ofwat has opened the second round of its Water Efficiency Lab, offering up to £5 million in funding to support technologies that can prevent,...
Ban the molecule or manage the risk? Diverging PFAS policies are shaping the technology...
Matthew Fall, Technology Analyst with market intelligence firm IDTechEx explains more about the impact of the differing approaches to the PFAS problem, a topic...
Researchers combine plasma and cavitation in bid to destroy PFAS
Researchers in Germany have developed what appears to be a new approach to destroying persistent PFAS 'forever chemicals' in contaminated water, using two complementary...
Self-cleaning solar desalination captures valuable salts
Researchers have developed a laser-engineered surface that separates water from dissolved salts during solar evaporation, overcoming one of the biggest obstacles to solar desalination:...
Researchers warn of climate change ‘roulette’ for European nitrate pollution
Climate change could significantly increase nitrogen pollution risks in freshwater systems across parts of Europe unless nutrient management practices adapt to changing environmental conditions,...
Water sector faces ‘perfect storm’ as AMP8 delays push projects off track
The UK water sector risks falling into a familiar cycle of late-stage pressure and rising costs unless it addresses the underlying cause of the...
Hidden water risks place strain on Europe’s long‑term resilience, says report
Europe faces growing long-term risks as flooding, water scarcity and pollution increasingly converge across the continent, according to a new analysis from engineering and...
UKWIR launches framework to standardise asset health
UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) has released a report aimed at tackling the lack of a unified approach to quantifying and valuing asset health...
New York’s Legionella outbreak: A wake-up call UK cities shouldn’t ignore
When news of a major Legionella outbreak in Harlem emerged last year, it followed an all-too-familiar script: serious illness, scrutiny of building water...
Recovery after 2025 drought, but risks remain, says SEPA
Parts of eastern Scotland have seen improvements in water resources over the winter following the 2025 drought, although some areas could still face water...
Firms join forces to deliver circular water solutions for UK industry
Global engineering and built environment consultancy Arup and Dutch industrial water specialist Evides Industriewater have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) designed to address...
Comment: Why predictive intelligence is non-negotiable for UK water
By Ryan Pearson of water technology firm Metasphere.
The Independent Water Commission’s (IWC) Final Report, delivered in July 2025, is being called the water sector's...
Water stewardship needs “same level of urgency” as climate and biodiversity, says ISEP report
Water deserves the same level of focus globally as climate change and biodiversity loss, according to a new paper from the Institute of Sustainability...
Water Discovery Challenge returns to bring more fresh thinking innovators into the water sector
The Water Innovation Fund is opening its doors to innovators from outside the water sector to enter bold solutions to the urgent challenges facing...
Whose pollution is it anyway? Project will use bacteriophages to point the finger
An ambitious interdisciplinary project is aiming to develop and test a first-of-its-kind tool which can trace the sources of pollution in UK water bodies....
Cleaning up PFAS with PFAS will backfire, warn scientists
A new paper in Nature Communications raises a red flag about fluorinated sorbents, a class of emerging materials for removing PFAS from water. The...
Rainwater-only irrigation system launches at premiership club, with accompanying awareness campaign
In what seems an important advance, and a relatively rare one with UK sports infrastructure, Manchester City has announced that its City Football Academy,...
New predictive tech tackles oxygenation of fisheries
A new technology solution to tackle problems like algal blooms combines data science, environmental science, AI and IoT to monitor and predict water-quality issues,...
Technology firm signs asset monitoring deal with Southern Water
Southern Water has partnered with specialist technology company Samotics to deploy its SAM4 smart condition monitoring system at sites across southern England. The artificial...
£25 million Water Efficiency Lab competition aims to drive innovation and cut water use...
Ofwat announced its inaugural Water Efficiency Lab (‘WEL 1’) on 25 November. The £25 million challenge-led competition is intended to unlock and scale innovations...
