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JUNE 2017 WET NEWS 3 U K water companies need to signi cantly increase infrastructure invest- ment, according to a new asset management research report. The report, Long Term Investment in Infrastructure, was carried out by business optimisation provider Servelec Technologies on behalf of UKWIR, in partnership with Frontier Economics and Atkins Global. The result of work started in May last year, it aims to present a body of evidence for the long-term infrastructure needs of the UK water industry which could be presented to government and industry stakeholders. The report, to be published by UKWIR soon, will show that UK water companies need to signi cantly increase levels of expenditure in infrastructure, both in the medium and long- term if current service standards UK water companies 'must up infrastructure investment' are to be maintained. Without increased expenditure in infrastructure the 350,000km of water mains and 625,000km of sewers in the UK will begin to fail more oˆ en, the research shows. Increased expenditure requires nancing, which will need to be achieved through increases in consumer bills. Using a model of the way water companies are nanced in Eng- land and Wales, the team from Frontier Economics used Servelec Technologies' analysis to estimate the e‹ ect the addi- tional investment will have on bills to be an additional 0.7% increase year-on-year to 2050. Using Servelec Technologies' asset management soˆ ware PIONEER as an analytical tool, the project team determined an acceptable level of investment based on a variety of short and long-term scenarios which • Infrastructure research warns hundreds of thousands of kilometres of water mains and sewers will fail without increased expenditure. included the e‹ ects of social and climatic changes and the potential bene ts of future technologies. Following the completion of the report, technical director George Heywood said: "We are pleased with the body of evidence we have provided to the UKWIR Steering Group and we hope that the UK water industry as a whole will bene t from this research. "The report will advise UK water companies, the government and industry authorities of the level of investment that is required to achieve the replacement and rehabilitation needed to o‹ set deterioration of UK water The WWT Water Industry Asset Management conference took place recently. What made the Twitterwall? #waterasset @wwtlive Terri• c ideas on value co-production from UK utility companies in pursuit of #trustinwater @DiginGlasgow You can't expect the water utility supply chain to be innovative when the utility is passing all the risk on to suppliers too #waterasset @Syrinix C onstruction of the biggest wastewater tunnel ever to be built in Scotland has reached the halfway stage. Scottish Water's › agship, £100M Shieldhall Tunnel project, in the south of Glasgow, passed the milestone last month when the state-of-the-art tunnel boring machine building it reached a point under Pollok Park. The Shieldhall Tunnel reaches hal ay stage tunnel, which will enable Scottish Water to improve water quality in the River Clyde and tackle › ooding, will at 3.1 miles long be ve times longer than the Clyde Tunnel. Engineers working on the 180m-long TBM, started construction when it was launched last July and are expected to complete it later this year. Andy Clarke @YorkshireWater with a great talk about how AMP7 will be much closer collaboration with the supply chain @IanJSmall #waterasset excellent examples of @scottishwater's 4 R's approach to resilience in Ayrshire Resilience @AdinaDudau Jason Tucker asking the group "what's the appetite for failure when thinking about innovation!" @ChangeandCo WET News is registered at Stationers' Hall. 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