Ofwat’s annual market review, reviewed
Market regulator, Ofwat, has published an overview of developments during the business retail market’s sixth year of operation (2022-23).
Visibility
Boots to Self-Supply water
Boots has been granted a Water and Sewerage Self-Supply licence (WSSL) by industry regulator, Ofwat. With 2,200 stores across the UK, Boots has partnered with Waterscan to facilitate the licence application and to manage the transition to Self-Supply.
Countdown to cost increases
As with widely reported household bill increases, most businesses will also be receiving higher than planned for water bills from April 2023.
Time to scrutinise
Most British businesses, unless they Self-Supply or have a non-standard tariff agreement, were subjected to three cost hikes in April.
How to build a resilient business through water action
Operational resilience is the ability of an organisation and its infrastructure to avoid, cope and recover from disruption, and its ability to adapt to environmental pressures, demographic change, shifts in customer behaviour and the impacts of climate change.
A mixed state of affairs
Traditional market structures and approaches are failing to deliver necessary improvements for water customers and the environment, reveals water market regulator Ofwat in its fourth State of the Market Report.
BT saves £1 million on water
BT has achieved one million pounds in savings on its water bills since switching to self-supply in 2019.
Whitbread’s water journey
Whitbread is the UK’s largest operator of hotels and restaurants. Here, we speak with Yvonne Mason, Environment Manager and Ross Greenhalgh, Energy Manager, about how the company has moved from effective water management to industry-leading stewardship, and most recently to resilience-based forward planning.
Arla acts on water efficiency as it moooves to self-supply
The UK’s number one dairy company, Arla has been granted a licence to self-supply water by market regulator Ofwat.
