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Our partnership with artificial intelligence (AI) company Molfar, which came about through our AI sewer scanning Marketplace challenge, is already revolutionising our sewer survey activity.

Last Autumn we launched a challenge looking for low cost monitors to enable us to increase our ability to proactively monitor and identify issues in our sewer network.

We launched the ion exchange brine challenge to try to find a more sustainable approach to deal with the brine waste from the ion exchange plants at one of our water treatment works.

We launched this challenge in September 2021 looking for alternative approaches to facilitate replacing buoyant plastic bead media used at some of our water recycling centres.

Last Autumn we launched a challenge looking at foaming at water recycling centre outfalls.

We launched this particular challenge to explore the possibility of coating some of the chambers and channels at our water recycling centres with an anti-fouling paint.

As 2021 draws to a close we’re looking back at some of our news and achievements related to the Wessex Water Marketplace.

There’s lots to update you on since previous blog posts on the Intelligent Sewers challenge.

As we plan ahead to see what Marketplace challenges are on the horizon this year, it feels a good time to reflect on 2020 and look at how we collaborated with many to share some great ideas during what was a very challenging year for everyone.

Reducing leakage rates is a huge challenge faced by all water companies. The possibility of further target reductions beyond the current AMP means now is absolutely the right time to share information on a variety of topics. Taking a collaborative approach in this way will help ensure we have the best chance of meeting the challenges and get there in a cost-effective way.