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Our Senior Director for Casework, Enforcement and Customers, Lynn Parker writes about two new reports published today linked to the affordability of bills – and an upcoming summit designed to find rapid solutions to the challenges faced by vulnerable customers. Read in full on our website https://lnkd.in/ejzg33_u

Today, we've published our consultation on strengthening credit balances protections for business customers in the Business Retail water market. Having reviewed the circumstances, we're concerned about credit levels in closed and open accounts and are proposing changes that will give business customers better information and greater protection. We're inviting feedback to our consultation by 5pm on Monday 16 September 2024. Read in full on our website. https://lnkd.in/eTvUFh9P

🏆 Breakthrough Winner Spotlight: Local Regeneration of Granular Activated Carbon 🏆 Led by Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water, with partners including Industrie DeNora, Panton McLeod, Swansea University, Uisce Éireann Irish Water and a number of other water companies, this project will investigate different ways to regenerate Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) locally reducing both financial and carbon costs.  GAC is used to remove organics, such as pesticides and taste and odour compounds. GAC needs to be regenerated thermally, typically every 3 years, which is both costly and carbon intensive. Discover more of the winning innovations and partnerships developed through the Water Breakthrough Challenge 4: https://lnkd.in/ei4RHvtz Feeling inspired? Our Water Breakthrough Challenge 5 competition will open on 9 September 2024 with approximately £40 million available for projects delivered in partnership with water companies in England and Wales. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/e5Dx-TNs Challenge Works Arup Isle Utilities

🏆 Breakthrough Winner Spotlight: Pipebot Patrol  🏆 Led by NWG (Northumbrian Water Group), and with partners including The University of Sheffield, Newcastle City Council, Sunderland City Council, Jet Aire (DC) Ltd, Environmental Monitoring Solutions, Pipebot Patrol will develop an autonomous sewer robot that lives in the sewer, constantly inspecting and raising alerts to the precise location of blockages, as they are beginning to form. This proactive approach allows maintenance teams enough time to react before sewer flooding occurs, keeping sewage where it belongs. Discover more of the winning innovations and partnerships developed through the Water Breakthrough Challenge 4: https://lnkd.in/ei4RHvtz Feeling inspired? Our Water Breakthrough Challenge 5 competition will open on 9 September 2024 with approximately £40 million available for projects delivered in partnership with water companies in England and Wales. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/e5Dx-TNs Challenge Works Arup Isle Utilities

✨Join Ofwat's Legal Team as a Legal Adviser at Senior Associate level! We are looking for 2x Senior Associate Legal Advisers to join our growing Legal Team which is part of the Office of the Chief Executive Directorate. The Legal team works with all Directorates across Ofwat, embedded in the policy teams' work, to help evolve and deliver Ofwat's strategy, whilst navigating and managing legal risk. The team's work is varied and ever-changing, but we always pride ourselves on providing high quality, pragmatic, solutions-focussed advice, clearly, simply and concisely. You will be working flexibly across the range of Ofwat's work, from longer-term policy projects to urgent, ad hoc matters requiring an immediate response. If this sounds like the opportunity for you, follow the link below to find out more and apply. 👇 https://lnkd.in/e6HY34bp

We're on the lookout for a Head of Information Governance to lead a small and friendly team. You'll play a key role in shaping Ofwat's approach to Information Governance and improving our data maturity to enable successful delivery of our Data Strategy. To find out more about the role, team and selection process, please follow the advert link https://lnkd.in/eFYCBtFA

Almost 700 people attended two virtual public meetings staged by Ofwat to get the views of customers and stakeholders on the draft decisions on business plans of the water companies in England and Wales for 2025 to 2030. Read our press notice to find out more https://lnkd.in/eBvKQ2cN

✨Join Ofwat's Major Projects and Markets Directorate as a Director of Business Retail Market! ✨ Are you ready to shape the future of the water industry? We are looking for a Director of Business Retail Market who will oversee our regulation of the non-household (known as the business retail) market.  Leading a team of economists, analysts and policy professionals, and working closely with key internal and external stakeholders, you will play an instrumental part in evaluating, shaping and implementing the regulatory architecture that underpins the market, with a particular emphasis on ensuring that the market develops in the best interests of customers and the environment. As a member of the Major Projects and Markets leadership team, you will also take a role in the wider development and efficient running of the Directorate. 👉 To find out more and apply, please follow the link below.  https://lnkd.in/eWqFvVW5

We're holding a virtual public meeting at 2pm today to get customers and other stakeholders’ views on our draft decisions on the business plans of water companies in Wales for 2025 to 2030. Register to have your say at https://lnkd.in/djtPTVQV

🏆Breakthrough Winner Spotlight: Developing a market-based approach to deliver SuDS through street works 🏆 Thames Water and Greater London Authority are working together on a project that incentivises utility companies to refill some of the 165,000 holes they dig in London every year with 'sustainable drainage systems' (such as raingardens). These will reduce strain on drains from rainwater, create a greener city and also protect London from the growing flooding risk in the city. Discover more of the winning innovations and partnerships developed through the Water Breakthrough Challenge 4: https://lnkd.in/ei4RHvtz Feeling inspired? Our Water Breakthrough Challenge 5 competition will open on 9 September 2024 with approximately £40 million available for projects delivered in partnership with water companies in England and Wales. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/e5Dx-TNs Challenge Works Arup Isle Utilities