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When a critical Scottish Water pumping station failed mid-maintenance, Xylem's Avensor real-time monitoring enabled controlled flow management, avoiding over-pumping and pollution risk.

With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”

The West is in a cyber 'phoney war' Charles Radclyffe at EA Global wrote in Forbes. Attacks are coming, utilities are dangerously exposed, and mandatory baseline cyber standards for every company and citizen are now essential.

January’s extreme weather initiated serious flood risk in the Somerset Levels. However, the Environment Agency (EA) and partners were able to manage potential impacts by implementing flood resilience strategies that included the rapid deployment of many additional transportable pumps.

A wastewater treatment process, Helea, developed by Anglian Water, will be used by Haskoning for projects in São Paulo.

Adam Cave, Founder and Managing Director, Murray McIntosh shares what conversations across the supply chain are telling them — including which companies navigated Year 1 well and which struggled, what it means for hiring, and what the sector needs to do differently before it is too late. They're calling Year 1 what it really was: Year 0.