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We continue to work closely with the UK Government to boost sustainable growth in the water sector, helping to unlock wider economic growth across England and Wales.   This is how we're working to achieve this 👇 HM Treasury

This is one of the Ofwat Innovation Fund projects I am most excited about - a fantastic facility to enable innovation and drive improvements in leakage performance for the benefit of the whole sector! Looking forward to visiting it when construction is complete.

Havant Thicket reservoir is an example of how the water sector is working collaboratively to secure drinking supply for future generations. Ofwat Senior Director and RAPID Managing Director Paul Hickey joined the Environment Secretary Rt Hon Steve Reed OBE MP, alongside colleagues from Southern Water and Portsmouth Water, to visit the site near Portsmouth – home to the first new major reservoir in the UK to be built in three decades. The visitors discussed the important role of new major infrastructure in securing future water supply. 

Join our work experience week: 14-17 April. Learn from industry experts about working in policy, economics and data - and find out how Ofwat can support you in your career. If you’re in Year 10-13 (or on a gap year after Y13), and are proactive, keen to develop your profession skills and interested in Ofwat, then apply at https://lnkd.in/eegCcPYU Applications must be received by Sunday 30 March.

We welcome the announcement from the Government, United Utilities and local partners of their ambition to eliminate sewage discharges into Windemere.   As part of our 2024 price review, United Utilities are proposing to invest £200 million to upgrade nine wastewater treatment works and reduce the spills from six storm overflows discharging into the lake to 10 per year by 2030.   PR24 has unlocked a quadrupling of investment by the water sector - accelerating the delivery of work to make our rivers and seas cleaner, and securing long-term drinking water supplies for customers. https://lnkd.in/e-2Bq7Wh Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Join us as a Senior Parliamentary and Public Affairs Officer Are you passionate about making a difference in the water sector? Joining Ofwat’s dynamic and newly established Public Affairs function, you will play a vital role in the team, working to build our profile, develop proactive campaigns and champion political stakeholder engagement across England and Wales. At a crucial time for the water sector, where events move at a rapid pace, you will contribute to and help deliver our new public affairs strategy, building on our overall communications strategy. Apply by 23 March. Learn more and apply via the link below: https://lnkd.in/evGfWXt7

Join our team as an IT Service Manager You will be responsible for ensuring IT Service Management policies and processes offered to Ofwat operations are consistent in approach, aligned to industry best practice standards and support Ofwat's operational strategic goals. You will represent Service Management in up to three specific Ofwat Directorates and their sub-teams, guiding and advising on all things related to IT Service delivery. https://lnkd.in/edw4gH9v #ITServiceManager #ITIL #WaterSector #CareerOpportunity #Ofwat 

⚖️ Meet our Breakthrough 5 judges: James Clarke MCIWEM C.WEM James is a Chartered Associate and has over a decade of experience in the water industry, specialising in driving innovation and change within hydraulic modelling. His experience within a water company at Southern Water and more recently in consultancies has seen him lead notable hydraulic modelling projects including the Doha Highway Drainage Design, the Slough Flood Alleviation Scheme  and Southern Water Strategic Growth Programme. This fifth round of our Water Breakthrough Challenge will make up to £40 million available to highly-collaborative innovations in the water sector that aim to deliver benefits for customers, society and the environment. Find out more about our judges: https://lnkd.in/evTwMGkR #WBC5 is delivered alongside Challenge Works (Nesta), Arup & Isle Utilities 

It was a pleasure to talk to Senedd members at the Welsh Assembly yesterday, as we launched our new home in Cardiff.   This office underlines our continued commitment to foster even closer collaboration with the Welsh Government, our partner regulators, water companies and Welsh customers.   The record-breaking £6.3bn of investment allowed by our 2024 price review will provide a step-change to enable Wales' water companies to deliver substantial and lasting improvements for their customers and the environment, whilst also developing critical new infrastructure projects that will enable economic growth.   Thank you to Senedd members, including Deputy First Minister Huw Irranca-Davies MS and Carolyn Thomas MS, for joining us in celebrating such an important milestone in Ofwat's 35 year history

This is how 3D printed concrete can save time, money and provide a much more environmentally-friendly future for water infrastructure.     The Water Industry Printfrastructure project has challenged traditional construction methods by successfully testing 3D printed concrete and plastic elements of a wastewater system.     This exciting project by United Utilities, in partnership with ChangeMaker3D Ltd, The Manchester Metropolitan University PrintCity MMU and Scottish Water, was supported with funding from our Innovation Fund.     Watch Marc Hannis explain more below, or read about it: https://lnkd.in/e8bzmYYu