Working groups
Future Water membership connects you to networking opportunities across the UK. Meet the right people, get more of the right work, and bid goodbye to cold outreach.
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Let your potential flow
Membership to our working groups is more than connection. It’s a pathway to transforming your organisation's skills, impact, and visibility in the water sector.
Sector leadership
Position your organisation at the forefront of water sector innovation and policy development.
Strategic networking
Build valuable connections with industry leaders, pioneers, and prospects.
Competitive intelligence
Gain exclusive insights that drive technological advancement and give you the edge.
Transforming the sector together
Our working groups are channelling innovation in the UK water sector. We create platforms and opportunities for proactive, collaborative solutions.
Policy influence
Collaborate directly with policymakers to create the changes you want to see across the industry.
Best practice
Share knowledge and discover industry-leading approaches you can take home with you.
Innovation
Accelerate technological advancements that tackle critical issues and move us forward towards a better water future.
Making change with a system-wide view
By bringing diverse professionals together, each group benefits from real-world perspective and technical expertise. We create space for new voices and bold ideas. Whatever your role, there’s a place for you.
Standards and regulations
Led by: Dr David Smoker of ACO Water Management
Priorities: This group ensures water sector standards and regulations are clear, practical, and innovation-friendly.
Members gain insight and guidance on standards that affect their business while helping shape sector-wide practices.
Innovation and intellectual property
Chaired by: Alastair Moseley of H20 WEM
Priorities: This group drives new thinking and challenges conventional approaches in the water sector.
Members explore innovation through an IP lens, participate in initiatives like the Water Dragons program, and help enable change and skill development for the sector’s future.
Developer services
Priorities: Bringing developers and the water sector together to deliver smarter, more sustainable infrastructure for new communities.
Members align water companies, NAVs, regulators, and suppliers to solve the practical hurdles of network growth, fair pricing, planning, and environmental compliance – so developments are water-secure and future-ready.
Leakage prevention
Chaired by: James Hargrave of Anglian Water
Priorities: This group brings together network managers, operators, and suppliers to tackle leakage challenges.
Members share knowledge, drive innovation, showcase effective interventions, and collaborate on training and standards to reduce water loss across networks.
Emerging talent
Led by: Abby Stern from Hydrosave
Priorities: This group gives new voices a platform to be heard and showcases the sector’s rising stars through the Emerging Talent Award.
Members contribute to talent attraction, retention, and mentoring initiatives, ensuring the next generation of water sector leaders is supported.
Digital and cyber resiliency
Led by: Gordon Robinson leads this group
Priorities: IT-OT challenges, cybersecurity, data management, and sector resilience.
Members collaborate on emerging risks, share best practices, navigate NIS regulations, and support training initiatives to strengthen the water sector’s digital security.
Networks and collaboration
Priorities: A forum to share best practices and insights on reputation management, stakeholder engagement, and media strategy across the water sector.
Members collaborate to shape how the sector is perceived, showcase successes and lessons, and develop narratives that reflect the views of the supply chain, helping the water sector communicate its value effectively.
Metering and data insights
Chaired by: Tanya Dady
Priorities: This group drives the adoption of smart, consistent, and interoperable metering across the UK.
Members collaborate on technical standards, rollout strategies, data use, customer engagement, and policy alignment to support industry-wide efficiency, reduce leakage, and create a more connected metering future.
Water sector collaborations
Showcasing some of our breakthrough initiatives that have transformed the UK water sector
Creation of clear industry guidelines
Our Standards and Regulations group created an industry guidance note with Water UK. It provides tangible guidelines on how to use standards for innovation and best practice.
Formation of a sector-wide review
The Future Water Report Card functions as a sector-wide review by gathering thoughts, insights, and conclusions from every Working Group.
Championing our newest voices
Our Emerging Talent group gives the industry’s youngest and newest the opportunity to attend and speak at events to help build their future.
Your path to water sector collaboration
Joining our Working Groups is straightforward and designed to accelerate your sector impact.
Step 1
Choose a Working Group (or several) from the list above that align with your priorities, challenges and values.
Step 2
Complete our form with your details to register your interest with your chosen groups.
Step 3
If you’re a member, you’re in! You’ll get updates about events for your chosen groups. If you're not a member yet, we'll message you with more information about the group.
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