Intelligent Sewers challenge enters its next stage April 17th, 2020 by Wessex Water A post by Jody KnightStrategic Technology Planning Manager So here we are 6 months after the Intelligent Sewers challenge went live on the Marketplace website and in the midst of a global pandemic! The importance of gaining better understanding from the data we collect in wastewater networks has never been more relevant. We need the…
Marketplace – Spreading the word March 16th, 2020 by Wessex Water A post by Katherine MiningOpen Systems Co-ordinator, Risk and Investment The Wessex Water Marketplace was delighted to be part of the Smart Water 2020 conference held in Birmingham last week. It was a great opportunity to spread the word about how our Marketplace platform is helping us find new and innovative solutions to the challenges…
Trials planned following anti-fouling paint challenge February 12th, 2020 by Wessex Water A post by Carla ReeveDevelopment Scientist, Operations In September we launched a challenge to identify an anti-fouling paint, which would inhibit the growth and build-up of slime, algae and aquatic plants on some of our final effluent humus tank channels at our water recycling centres. We received responses from a range of sources – individuals,…
Hacking about – how did our water efficiency hackathon go? October 16th, 2019 by Wessex Water A post by Philippa BondParticipation Strategy Manager, Customer Insight and Participation July and August saw four companies analyse our historical water efficiency data (you can still see it here and here) to help us answer the question How can we improve the efficiency of our in-house visits – can we improve the estimated savings or…
Wessex Water’s bustling marketplace, three months on August 13th, 2019 by Wessex Water As published in Water & Wastewater Treatment A post by Neil Wilson, Director of Risk and Investment When Ofwat announced its requirements for all water companies to include a bid assessment framework in their 2020-25 business plans, we welcomed the idea with open arms, confirming our beliefs that our open systems approach, and the Wessex…
Working in partnership to support customers in vulnerable circumstances June 18th, 2019 by Wessex Water A post by Kate Robbins – Head of Customer Policy On 9 May 2019 we held our first shared partnership event with Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN). We have been working in partnership with SSEN since May 2016 to support our customers in vulnerable circumstances. Customers are our priority, and we are committed to…
Where Wessex Water meets Apple! April 9th, 2019 by Wessex Water A post by David Elliott – Group chief innovation officer “The key to dominating the 20th century economy was to own the means of production. The secret of our own times is to create the means of connection.” Financial Times 2018 When we were privatised in 1989, the critical need at that time was to…
Our Marketplace hackathon event April 8th, 2019 by Wessex Water A post by Laura Mann – Head of open systems In autumn 2018 we ran a series of ‘data hackathons’, inviting internal and external staff to explore a data set detailing customer blockages over the past six years. We posed the question, ‘What can you tell us about sewerage incidents that might help us…
What’s in a name? April 2nd, 2019 by Wessex Water Open system, system coordinator – what do they mean? To those who talk a lot about catchments, regulations, and industry, possibly a bit. But to the wider market – very little. We realised we needed a better title for the ‘Open system’ approach in our business plan and set about trying to find one. We…
