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Energising the utility sector with cutting-edge rugged technology

Technology and digitisation continue to transform the way utility organisations operate. As the sector becomes more sophisticated through the adoption of AI, the IoT,...

River Deep Mountain AI releases first open-source models

Collaborative innovation project River Deep Mountain AI (RDMAI) has announced the open-source release of a suite of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models...

Huge names to be a part of Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Festival 2025

Well-known businesses from the worlds of data, technology and AI are joining forces to help to regenerate the water industry as part of Northumbrian...

StormHarvester partners with HydroDigital to expand smart sewer technology in the UK and Ireland

StormHarvester, a leader in AI-powered wastewater analytics, has partnered with HydroDigital to accelerate the adoption of advanced digital water management technologies across the United...

Yorkshire Water AI-Water Quality Monitoring named a winner in the fifth Water Breakthrough Challenge

An innovative solution that uses AI models to provide continuous river water quality monitoring at multiple inland bathing water sites, has been named a...

South West Water to lead groundbreaking project to predict harmful algal blooms

South West Water is among 16 winning projects that have been awarded funding through the Ofwat Innovation Fund’s fifth Water Breakthrough Challenge, securing support...

Satellites, robots, drones and AI among winners of Ofwat’s fifth Water Breakthrough Challenge

Pioneering technological solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing the water sector have won a share of £42 million from the Ofwat Innovation...

South East Water partners with Qodea to drive digital innovation with Google technologies

Qodea, Europe’s largest dedicated Google Cloud digital transformation partner, has announced that it has been selected by South East Water (SEW) to support its...

Upskilling in an AI-driven world: A chance for the water sector to boost productivity and improve customer satisfaction

Every day, the UK loses around 3 billion litres of treated water to leaks. Within a context of climate change, ageing infrastructure, and rising...

New UKWP white paper reveals AI opportunities for water sector

The UK Water Partnership (UKWP), in collaboration with British AI and data firm Aiimi, has published a new white paper, AI Within Reach, laying...

Objectively Speaking: AMP 8 – The opportunities and challenges ahead

In his regular column, Oliver Grievson, Associate Director AtkinsRéalis and Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, explores some of...

China innovates water management with AI and Blockchain

As China faces increasing water scarcity due to urbanization, climate change, and an aging infrastructure, the integration of advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI)...

The top eight technological trends set to shape water management in 2025

According to a recent World Economic Forum publication, 2025 is set to be a year marked by two key milestones: on the one hand,...

Additive Catchments and Capgemini partner to lead AI-driven transformation of UK river health

Additive Catchments and Capgemini have announced a key partnership in the UK to scale Additive Catchments’ Catchment Monitoring as a Service (CMaaS®) platform. The collaboration...

Residents across the North East of England to benefit from investment in “smart sewers” that reduce sewage spills

Residents across the North East of England are benefiting from investment in “smart sewers” that use cutting-edge technology to reduce sewage spills and clean...

Objectively Speaking: Smart Wastewater Networks…..Are we there yet?

In his regular column, Oliver Grievson, Associate Director AtkinsRéalis and Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, asks if we...

StormHarvester receives £8.4M investment to expand business

Belfast based software company, StormHarvester, has announced an investment of £8.4M, which will situate the company for growth and see its workforce double in...

KETOS partners with Siemens to strengthen water management globally with robotics and AI-based solution offerings

KETOS and Siemens have partnered to provide water quality solutions and improve water management for water operators. The partnership focuses on the industrial and...

Emerald backs StormHarvester with $10.2M Series A to innovate AI-infused smart water management

Cleantech venture capital pioneer Emerald Technology Ventures has invested into StormHarvester, a SaaS machine-learning and analytics company that helps wastewater utilities optimize the management...

AI-driven approach reveals hidden hazards of chemical mixtures in rivers

Artificial intelligence can provide critical insights into how complex mixtures of chemicals in rivers affect aquatic life – paving the way for better environmental...

Anglian Water to use AI to ensure efficient delivery of infrastructure projects funded in Ofwat investment drive

Anglian Water will use AI to forecast and efficiently deliver crucial large-scale water infrastructure projects and project portfolios during the UK water regulator’s upcoming...

Arqiva announces the appointment of Mark Steele as Chief of Operations

Arqiva, a leading global communications infrastructure and media services company, has announced the appointment of Mark Steele as Chief of Operations.  Mark joined Arqiva in...

Xylem analytics platform wins smart monitoring award

An integrated software and analytics platform helping water utilities to reduce combined sewer overflows has been recognised at the Water, Wastewater & Environmental Monitoring (WWEM)...

SES Water uses smart technology to predict water demand, in partnership with Royal HaskoningDHV

SES Water has announced the successful completion of a pilot project using advanced smart technology - a machine-learning algorithm called Opir - designed to...

Costain and WSP to develop AI-powered data analytics platform

Costain, the infrastructure solutions company, in partnership with WSP, has been granted funding by Northumbrian Water to develop a new AI-powered platform designed to...

Objectively Speaking: Data, data, everywhere…

This Month, Oliver Grievson, Associate Director AtkinsRéalis and Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, considers the benefits of the...

FIDO AI raises series b investment to scale its innovative water management technology

FIDO AI Ltd – the software company helping to rapidly improve global water resilience using AI-led non-revenue water (NRW) reduction and curated water data...

Iknaia teams up with OSIL and UniFAI for real-time bathing water monitoring project

Iknaia has announced a revolutionary collaboration with Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) and UnifAI Technology to deliver real-time monitoring of bathing water conditions at...

InfoTiles accelerates European growth with innovation collaboration

Digital analytics company InfoTiles is seeking to extend the market reach of its innovative artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tool by joining...

Thousands of citizen photos train AI to monitor river pollution

Photographs gathered by the Friends of Bradford’s Becks community group have been used to train a new AI model to spot visual markers of...

Investment project to reduce storm overflow spills is the first of its kind in the UK

Northumbrian Water has started a ground-breaking £20m project which is set to significantly reduce spills from storm overflows across Tyneside. The project, which is set...

Majority of water companies face ‘challenging and unpredictable’ cost pressures ahead of AMP8

More than one third (34%) of leaders from water companies across England and Wales are facing ‘challenging’ cost pressures, while almost one fifth (18%)...

Working smarter with wastewater in Westbury

A Wiltshire town is at the centre of an innovative wastewater project that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence. A smart waste system is being...

Cutting edge technology to be piloted to help reduce storm overflows and flooding in Kent and the Isle of Wight

New AI technology will be installed for the first time this month as part of Southern Water's ongoing efforts to reduce storm overflows. Southern Water's...

Arup and InfoTiles partner to empower water companies unlock hidden value in their asset data  

Global engineering and sustainable development consultancy Arup has entered a strategic partnership with Norwegian digital analytics company, InfoTiles, to empower water and wastewater utilities ...

Water sector AI solutions win share of £1 million as Manchester Prize names first ever finalists

After a nationwide search and entries from all corners of the UK, the Manchester Prize has awarded £1 million to ten teams of advanced...

Northumbrian Water Group secure funding for huge innovation projects

Northumbrian Water has secured over £10m worth of funding for a number of exciting new innovation projects which are set to revolutionise wastewater operations...

Northumbrian Water awarded funding to collaborate with Cognizant to improve UK river quality through AI

Ofwat has announced that Northumbrian Water has been awarded funding to help provide improved insights into river health and water quality. IT consultant, Cognizant,...

Collaboration extends data analytics tool to energy sector

Norwegian digital analytics company InfoTiles is extending its innovative artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tool to the energy sector for the first...

Microsoft sustainability chief highlights intrinsic link to water

Moving water into an artificial intelligence (AI) and data-powered future was the theme of a keynote speech from Lewis Richards, Microsoft’s chief sustainability officer...

FYLD secures £12M funding round to take platform global

Breaking ground in the infrastructure sector, FYLD, the AI-powered field work execution platform, has announced that it has closed a £12M funding round led...

New world first for WRc with Ofwat-funded AI sewer assessment tool

The Water Research Centre (WRc) has supplemented its 1980 industry essential guide, the Manual of Sewer Condition Classification (MSCC), with another world first, a...

Artificial intelligence tackling global water shortages

A company using artificial intelligence (AI) to save billions of litres of water has partnered with University of the West of Scotland (UWS) to...

Anglian Water expands transformative AI technology trial

Following the successful pilot of its digital asset management technology with Anglian Water, Norwegian digital analytics company, InfoTiles, is embarking on an expanded proof...

UK Government investing in water sector AI

A detailed overview of artificial intelligence (AI) and its increasing emergence in the water and wastewater sector was the focus of British Water’s latest...

SUEZ and Anglian Water announce performance pilot with AQUADVANCED® Energy in Ely, Cambridgeshire

SUEZ and Anglian Water have announced the start of a performance pilot project to be conducted in three phases in Ely in the United...

Orbis and VODA.ai partnership boosts leakage offering

Water technology company Orbis Intelligent Systems and artificial intelligence (AI) specialist VODA.ai have entered into a strategic partnership offering a combined skillset to support...

Welsh Water’s innovative artificial intelligence initiative to transform algal monitoring awarded £385,000 in latest Ofwat innovation competition

Welsh Water’s innovative project idea to use artificial intelligence (AI) improving the way water companies monitor algae levels in reservoirs has received £385,000 in...

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