Leadership

In conversation with Matthew Power, Utilities Commercial Specialist.

In conversation with Waterscan’s Rebecca Gale, Account Director, and Esmond Bowerman, Sustainability Manager.

Eleanor Pendle’s experience at World Water Week 2023.

Highlights from the fifth day of World Water Week.

Our focus session for World Water Week’s fifth day is ‘Water in Communications: The Importance of Strategic Communication to Drive Change in Water’.

Highlights from the fourth day of World Water Week.

Our focus session for World Water Week’s fourth day is ‘Water in Business: Driving Change in the Boardroom’.

Highlights from the third day of World Water Week.

Our focus session for World Water Week’s third day is ‘UN 2023 Water Conference Talk Show: Keeping the momentum going’.

Highlights from the second day of World Water Week.

Our focus session for World Water Week’s second day is ‘Water in business: from commitments to transformation’.

World Water Week is the leading conference on global water issues, held every year since 1991.

You can’t manage what you don’t measure. What you don’t measure, you can’t improve. We’ve put together a 5 step guide to start measuring and reporting on water.

On 22nd June, Waterscan convened the first in a new annual conference, Water Matters.

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.

In recognition of the proactive, expert support that it provides, Waterscan has been awarded the accolade of Sainsbury’s Strategic Partner for Sustainability.

Each year, CDP opens its reporting platform from April to August in readiness for scoring in the autumn.

The annual reveal of Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) scores is always a highly anticipated and interesting event.

An Interview with Cllr Paulette Lappin, cabinet member – regulatory, compliance and corporate services & Jon Williams, environmental management (utilities) officer.

Following a lengthy period of consultation, reflect and number crunching, Ofwat has published the methodology for its price review, PR24, which sets out expectations of water companies for the period 2025-2030 and beyond.

Following a lengthy public consultation during 2022, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has secured…

Defra’s environmental targets proposal to meet future water demand is a welcome step change.

The UK government’s introduction of mandatory Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) reporting is a welcome evolution in corporate responsibility.

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.

Waterscan and the Self-Supply community recognised for outstanding water management.

Waterscan and long-term customer Whitbread were delighted to be jointly awarded the Footprint Drinks Awards Sustainable Use of Water Award 2021.

On 14th April 2021, Waterscan and Whitbread co-hosted a virtual Tea at 3 event. This was for a privately invited group of senior sustainability, procurement and utilities managers from across the UK’s hospitality, leisure, retail, manufacturing and transport sectors.

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.

“If you want to make progress on global challenges, start with water”, advises the World Economic Forum.

Waterscan is delighted to announce that it has saved its non-household water customers £20 million since the market opened in 2017.

A working lunch with BT’s Utilities Commercial Specialist, Matt Power.

Working in partnership with Waterscan to self-supply water David Lloyd Leisure (DLL) is the first company within the UK’s health and leisure sector to be granted a self-supply licence from…

Sainsbury’s has applied to water market regulator Ofwat for a Self-Supply licence.

Ofwat has granted water self-supply licences (WSSLs) to John Lewis PLC and Kellogg’s in a move that will see self-supply operable in two new commercial sectors: retail and food manufacturing.

Marston’s Brewery and Greene King have been judged as the two companies in the drinks sector that are making the biggest impact in the sustainable use of water, both with the support of Waterscan.

In August 2019, John Lewis PLC became the first UK retailer to apply to Ofwat for a water and sewerage Self-Supply licence.

Developed by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, the Catchment Management Declaration is regarded by many as the potential to be a watershed moment in transforming sustainable water management across Britain.

Three more forward-thinking companies have been granted Self-Supply licences for water and sewerage services, bringing the number of organisations taking this revolutionary route to eight since the market opened just eighteen months ago.

Stonegate Pub Company and Heineken UK Ltd have applied for Self-Supply licences for water and sewerage services.

At Waterscan, we are very happy and excited to have been announced as the winners of the ‘Waste2Zero’ Best Product, Technology and Innovation Award 2018 in collaboration with Greene King, supporting water sustainability through the water Self-Supply innovation.

Blackpool Council has been awarded a water Self-Supply licence by Ofwat.

Whitbread, the UK’s largest hotel, restaurant and coffee shop operator whose brands include Premier Inn, Costa, Beefeater and Brewers Fayre – has partnered with Waterscan…

Marston’s is the third company in England to be granted a licence by Ofwat to supply its own water and wastewater services.

CCEP is set to become the first manufacturer to take the innovative path of Self-Supply.

Whitbread becomes second to gain water Self-Supply licence in new water market.