Marketplace Challenges

With the increased number of monitors in the wastewater network (mostly at combined sewer overflows; a result of the Event Duration Monitoring programme) Wessex Water’s Control Room is receiving an increasing number of alarms during wet weather events. Some of these alarms are genuine, whilst others are simply triggering because of the high volume of rainfall in an area. We want to engage suppliers to carry out proof of concept (POC) trials to demonstrate the value of applying machine-learning algorithms to this alarm data.

Sewage treatment works, water recycling centres, waste water treatment plants – whatever you call them, the principle is the same. They treat domestic and trade waste to an appropriate level to discharge to the environment. By their very nature they accumulate dirt and debris, but we’re looking to further improve our compliance record by cleaning up some of the chambers and channels on site and we need your help.

Each year we survey 400km of sewers via CCTV. We want to know if we can use AI to increase the efficiency and have launched a challenge to explore this

We're looking at how best to remove P on our smaller sites and have launched a challenge to explore what the market has to offer. Can you help us?

We've been supporting our customers to reduce their water use over the past 4 years. This challenge asks for suggestions on how we might do this between 2020-25

Our business plan for 2020-2025 sets out proposals on how we intend to further improve water and sewerage services over future years.

By 2025 the PSTN lines supported by BT that communicate with our 2,500 sites will cease to work. We have launch a challenge to explore how to replace these

We're looking for innovative suggestions for how to reduce phosphorus levels in the Hampshire Avon catchment between 2020-25