Ofwat, the English and Welsh water regulator, have awarded £5.2m to highly innovative initiatives using robotics, smart sensors, open data and novel engineering to improve water quality, reduce pollution, and enhance services for customers.

New Funding Source for Trials of New Technologies That Reduce Carbon Emissions

Sydney Water’s Innovation Festival, to be held on 18-20 October, is about caring for country, customers, community and people.

Veronica Murphy, First Nation’s Inclusion Specialist at Sydney Water said that it was important to Sydney Water to host a Festival that was inclusive and innovative.

The European Union has awarded 3M€ to the LIFE GREEN ADAPT project to increase resilience to climate change of waste infrastructures by the application of blue-green infrastructures

The European Union has awarded 7M€ to the VIVALDI project to transform the bio-based industry
into a new, more environmentally friendly and competitive sector

Eleven winners of the Innovation in Water Challenge (IWC) will receive up to £250,000 each for initiatives such as converting waste into green energy and using artificial intelligence and CCTV to spot leaks.

Run by Ofwat and Nesta Challenges, and supported by Arup and Isle Utilities, the IWC’s goal is to fund transformational innovation to key challenges in the water sector.

This was the first in a series of competitions funded through Ofwat’s Innovation Fund that aims to create new collaborations in the water sector so it can meet the needs of customers, society and the environment now and in the future.