FINALISTS:

Anglian Water, Thames Water, United Utilities, Arup, CIWEM & Future Homes - Enabling Water Smart Communities 

Detectronic, Yorkshire Water, Rotherham Council & Marvel - Building Capacity, Visibility and Community Value 

Galliford Try, AtkinsRéalis, Binnies, GHD, Sweco & WSP - GT5C: The collaborative engineering model powering AMP8 

GEDA WSI JV & Northern Ireland Water - Energy Reduce Use Pump Optimisation Programme 

Horizon Water Infrastructure Southern Water Alliance, SUEZ & M Group - Meter Upgrade Programme 

Thames Water, M Group, Arqiva, Vodafone, Honeywell & Sensus - Complementary Smart Metering Project 

United Utilities, Advance Plus, MWH Treatment & John Murphy - Oswestry WTW  

United Utilities, Cascade Infrastructure, Equitix, STRABAG & GLIL - Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme 

United Utilities Enterprise - Year 1 mobilisation 

Water Direct & Yorkshire Water - Proactive Alternative Water Supply Partnership 

FINALISTS:

Aqua Consultants & Northumbrian Water - Strengthening asset health & climate resilience evidence  

GEDA WSI JV and Northern Ireland Water - Energy Reduce Use Pump Optimisation Programme 

Indevor Water - Legacy Sewer Auto-Adoption Model 

Northumbrian Water & Vyntelligence - The Digital Eye for CSO Excellence 

Triflex (UK) and Concrete Repairs - Inverted warm roof innovation for potable water retaining assets 

Scottish Water & Caledonia Water Alliance - Ayrshire & Glasgow Resilience Project 

Severn Trent Water - Power Resilience-Remote Auto Reset Performance Functionality Assurance 

Southern Water & Binnies UK - Enabling & Delivering Risk-Based Maintenance at Southern Water Wastewater 

WSP UK - Resilience 360: Real‑time Evaluation System for Intelligent Infrastructure 

FINALISTS:

Anglian Water, Money & Mental Health, Mental Health Innovations - Improving Outcomes for Customers with Mental Health Needs 

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water & Accenture - Customer Engage Programme 

EXL Service (UK) - Customer Case Manager Initiative of the Year 

Thames Water and local authorities - Thames Water auto-enrolment of affordability support 

Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure, Arup and Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water - Pont-y-felin Lane, Nature Based Solution to Storm Overflows 

Network Plus, United Utilities and Cadent Gas - DeTrafford Drive, maximising satisfaction by leveraging cross-utility collaboration 

Northumbrian Water - Predictive Customer Excellence 

Southern Water - Project 80: Radically Transforming the Customer Journey 

FINALISTS:

Adler & Allan 

Arcadis 

Avove 

Barhale 

Galliford Try Construction  

Kier Group - Water Sector Business 

MWH Treatment  

Newton 

Stantec 

FINALISTS:

Advanced Water Infrastructure Networks & Stream - MyTap: A Customer-Centric Digital Water Management Platform 

Affinity Water & Optimatics - AssetAdvanced Algorithm-Driven Mains Replacement Prioritisation 

Murphy & Boundless Immersive - Interactive Site Inductions 

Northumbrian Water & River Deep Mountain AI consortium - River Deep Mountain AI 

StormHarvester & Anglian Water - Dynamic Sewer Visualisation: Redefining Wastewater Operations Through Real-Time Insight 

Thames Water & BMA - Thames Water's Industry-Leading Approach to Integrated Bioresources Systems Planning 

Water Direct - Connect PSR Platform: Providing Real-time Incident Oversight 

WATR - Smart Biosphere – Connected Catchment Smart Water Network 

WSP UK - Dynamita/Transcend 

FINALISTS:

Betafit PPE - Inclusive Fit Safety helmet for the water sector 

Galliford Try & Yorkshire Water - Digitally visualised site set up for sustainable construction  

United Utilities & The Growth Company - Creation of the Peer-to-Peer Colleague Representative Group Network 

WGM Engineering - Women in WGM 

Xylem & British Water - Beneath the Surface Podcast  

FINALISTS:

IES Utility Solutions & Northumbrian Water - Collaboration Delivers Cleaner Water for Saxmundham 

Scottish Water - Tackling disinfection by-products using zeta potential analysis 

Northern Ireland Water & Badger Meter - Pilot Plant Strategy 

Northumbrian Water & Stantec - HazRev 

Northumbrian Water & Stantec - Layer Water Treatment Works 

RSE & Scottish Water - Modular Upgrade of Eela Water Treatment Works Driving Industry Innovation  

FINALISTS:

Galliford Try Construction - From risk to delivery: a scalable PFAS solution for UK  

Puragen - PFAS Group Chemicals – “Search, Capture & Destroy” 

Severn Trent Water, Kando Environmental Services and OnSite - Finham Smart Wastewater Network Intelligence Trial  

University of Warwick & Severn Trent Water - Bench-Scale Electrochemical Reactors for High Throughput PFAS Destruction Analysis  

WSP UK - Helping Water Companies Address PFAS Risks in Groundwater Catchments 

FINALISTS:

AtkinsRéalis & Sizewell C Nuclear Power Project - UK First Full Scale Seawater RO Desalination Potable Water Plant  

Indevor Water - Legacy Sewer Auto-Adoption Model 

Molendotech - Bactiquick 

Northumbrian Water, University of Sheffield, Cura Terrae Water, Minicam and Spring Innovation - Pipebot Patrol 

Southern Water - A sustainable future for fertiliser: reducing nitrogen pollution 

United Utilities & Haigh Environmental - FujicleanCRX: Standardising Innovative Chemical‑Free Phosphorus Removal for Rural Wastewater Treatment 

VisNet & Southern Water - VisNet’s electrical monitoring solutions for Southern Water’s wastewater networks 

FINALISTS:

Barhale - A Step Change in Confined Space 

FYLD & M Group Water - Real-time safety oversight and coaching  

M Group Water - Brilliant at the Basics Initiative  

M Group Water - CLAMP ON Initiative 

Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure, Arup and Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water - ‘Protecting People’ behavioural safety excellence across our Infrastructure, Water Team 

Mott MacDonald Bentley - Controlling of High Energy Hazards 

MWH Treatment - Embedding HOSASS (Hands Off, Step Away, Safe Space)  

Stonbury - OPEN - Whole business culture and behaviour initiative 

United Utilities - Occupational Road Risk programme 

SPONSORED BY:

FINALISTS:

FYLD & Yorkshire Water - Real-time field visibility to cut leakage  

Northumbrian Water - Predictive Leakage Prevention Programme 

Origin Tech & Severn Trent Water - Origin Orbit satellite leak detection 

Thames Water, HAL and HWM Global - Acoustic Logger Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Leakage  

FINALISTS:

Advanced Water Infrastructure Networks 

ESP Utilities Group  

Leep Utilities 

FINALISTS:

Northumbrian Water - Bluespaces 

United Utilities - Thirlmere Resilience 

Wessex Water and YTL Construction UK - Post Green Wetland 

FINALISTS:

Assentech Sales - Vent-Less Test Bench Range for Digester Breather Valves 

CAPE - Wastewater Detection Dog Programme   

Ipsum - Dale Road Spills Scheme 

Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure, Arup and Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water - Pont-y-felin Lane, Nature Based Solution to Storm Overflows 

Northumbrian Water & Vyntelligence - The Digital Eye for CSO Excellence 

Northumbrian Water & Stantec - Low Sided Weirs 

Severn Trent Water & Newton - A Strategic Partnership Improving Pollutions Performance 

Severn Trent Water - Storm Generator 

StormHarvester & Anglian Water - Dynamic Sewer Visualisation: Redefining Wastewater Operations Through Real-Time Insight 

VisNet & Southern Water - VisNet Hub electrical monitoring solution for Southern Water’s wastewater network 

SPONSORED BY:

FINALISTS:

Isabella Boucher, Advanced Water Infrastructure Networks 

Lewis Duffy, WGM Engineering  

James Jones, Tetra Tech 

Mia Macfee, Stantec 

Francesca McKendrick, United Utilities 

Phoebe Moore, MWH Treatment  

Esther Mozimo, Barhale 

Ellie Parker, United Utilities 

Hannah Saunders, Utilitec Services  

Benjamin Sterratt, Stantec 

James Turnock, Barhale 

FINALISTS:

Arqiva & Anglian Water - Powering the UK’s Largest Smart Water Network 

Severn Trent Water & Itron - Smart Metering at Scale  

StormHarvester & Anglian Water - Turning Insight into Impact: Reducing I&I by 20% 

FINALISTS:

Environment Agency, Blackwater Aggregates, WSP, Honace & Mott MacDonald - Coggeshall, Feering and Kelvedon Flood Alleviation Scheme 

Environment Agency & partners - Cumbria River Restoration Programme 

Galliford Try Construction - Carbon by design: The One in a Million Challenge 

Heartland Pipelines - Lake Vyrnwy Wet Woodland Restoration Project 

IWS M&E and Wilo - Water security and optimisation project 

Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure, Arup and Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water - Pont-y-felin Lane, Nature Based Solution to Storm Overflows 

RSE & Scottish Water - RSE-TMB® is a Key Net Zero Driver  

Salinity Solutions & TopDental - Chemical-free ultrapure water  

Southern Water, Wildheart Animal Sanctuary, Robert Bray Associates and Groundhogs - The UK's First SuDS Safari: reducing coastal pollution 

SPONSORED BY:

FINALISTS:

amplify alliance, South West Water and partners - Dawlish Storm Overflow Project 

APEM - Transitional and Coastal waters surveys and WwTW investigations 

BarhaleEnpure JV - Dewsbury Wastewater Treatment Works Upgrade 

CAPE - Wastewater Detection Dog Programme 

Cappagh Browne & Lining Division - A Landmark Sewer Rehabilitation Project Delivering Industry Leading Firsts 

Haskoning, Severn Trent Water, OnSite and InfraTech - Barston Nereda Nitrogen Technical Achievable Limit Project 

Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure, Arup and Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water - Pont-y-felin Lane, Nature Based Solution to Storm Overflows 

Mott MacDonald, Trant Engineering, DuPont & Wessex Water - Process Intensification with OxyMem™ MABR at Holdenhurst Water Recycling Centre  

Northumbrian Water & Esh-Stantec - Coundon Burn 

Severn Trent Water - Circular Ammonia Recovery for a Low-Carbon Wastewater Future  

United Utilities & Utilitec Services - EDM Operational Intelligence Improvement Programme 

United Utilities, LCS Civil and Aquardia Process Solutions - Whitegate WwTW WINEP 

FINALISTS:

Avove - Strelley To Redhill Trunk Main-Unmatched Speed. Unrivalled Safety. Unprecedented Collaboration 

Severn Trent Water - Saving Water, One Badge at a Time 

Severn Trent Water & Groundbreaker Systems - Passive reduction of PCC through flow regulation in STW Network 

Water Plus - Powering water efficiency progress, at scale, through retailer-led partnerships initiative 

Wave - Big Blue Eco Booster Project  

FINALISTS:

Everflow 

Wave