Water companies have long recognised that a more integrated approach to the management of distribution system functions could ...

The objective of this study was to identify improvements or clarifications that could be made to existing regulations and legislation to improve the management of future droughts

This report provides a synthesis of the research outputs of the UKWIR and Environment Agency research ...

Mapping The Underworld is an EPSRC funded programme consisting of 4 projects and a dissemination network, which was originally initiated by UKWIR under the 'Minimising Street Works Disruption' programme

This report presents an outline wastewater supply-demand planning framework ... 

The European Commission has recognised the potential for plant location technology to safeguard the environment ...

Theme specific road maps provide a new shared vision: a framework that can give direction to the supply chain and the research

The sunlight-induced inactivation of bacterial indicator organisms, F-specific bacteriophage and poliovirus 2 was investigated in a series ...

This report sets out a new common approach to capturing, recording, storing and sharing underground asset information ...

Laboratory studies and field assesssments using representative bisolid types from three regions in England were undertaken ...

Sewer grit and sewage screenings are generated in the preliminary stages of wastewater treatment, and most of this waste is currently landfilled. Increases in landfill ...

This review has briefly assessed the health risks associated with the relationship between bacterial pathogens and protozoa in water supplies. It appears that the ...

This report presents guidance on the application of cost benefit analysis to the alleviation of sewer flooding risks.  The guidance is intended to be consistent  ...

This review has briefly assessed the health risks associated with the relationship between bacterial pathogens and protozoa in water supplies. It appears that the protozoan host may protect these bacteria from disinfection during water treatment. The number of reported ...

This project has improved the understanding of the range of seasonal variations in leakage around the UK and identified some of the underlying factors and the mechanisms.

Since water industry privatisation in 1989, dramatic variations in capital expenditure have had a profound effect on the industry's suppliers who are often faced with a 'feast or famine' situation and little long-term visibility ...

This report presents guidance on the application of cost benefit analysis to the alleviation of sewer flooding risks.  The guidance ...

Sewer grit and sewage screenings are generated in the preliminary stages of wastewater treatment, and most of this waste is currently landfilled. Increases in landfill disposal charges, the imposition of the landfill tax and the reduction in void space have made ...

This report presents an outline wastewater supply-demand planning framework.  A standard approach to ...

Could Ofwat conduct price control reviews without relying on econometric modelling and imposing the data collection burden that this entails?  Could Ofwat find more robust and transparent ways of analysing and combining evidence about companies' future expenditure requirements?

Topics covered in the report include:

• How Ofwat could develop its current approach.
• Radical alternatives to the current approach.
• The use of panel data analysis and other econometric techniques.
• The role of top-down productivity studies.
• The reconciliation of evidence from different sources and techniques.

This report is part of a major study on the impact of climate change on sewerage hydraulic design The project was wide ranging, but with a principle focus on the performance of sewerage systems under future (year 2080) rainfall conditions and what changes might be needed in the hydraulic design of sewerage systems to address any problems ...

This project developed deterioration models for above-ground assets which will allow companies to input their own data and draw their own conclusions. A suite of life distribution and ...

The work reported here is an extension to the UKWIR WW/17 project and has been co-funded by UKWIR, OFWAT, the Environment Agency and Defra. The report provides an overview ...

An approach to formulating interventions and seeking funding to address aesthetic aspects of drinking water quality is considered. These aspects include discolouration and particles ...

This project examined the likely effects of climate change on UK water industry compliance with the Water Framework Directive (WFD), set in the context of other expected changes, such as demographic ...

Six “pilot” catchments in England and Scotland were chosen where pesticides were a problem for water abstracters. Five of the catchments were surface waters, two of which included reservoirs and one was a groundwater ...

This project involved 1) exploratory analysis of existing water company data sets on household consumption and 2) developed a series of five workshops entitled: Traces of Water.  The report first, presents ...