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We're pleased to announce that Alan Spey has joined Artesia. Alan is a specialist in network analysis, with nine years’ experience in the delivery, management and development of infrastructure deterioration and performance modelling, leakage measurement, and pressure...

This is the second of three blogs on the changing face of water resources in England and Wales.  My first blog reviewed how new guidance will affect how water companies plan to maintain supplies in the long-term.  This blog looks at planned changes that could have...

Change is the key word for the water industry as the sector enters the sixth investment period; AMP6. For the water companies the focus is on customers and their needs; there is the introduction of TOTEX (Total Expenditure) bringing life cycle assessment back into the thinking and from 2017 the opening of the retail and wholesale markets in England and Wales.

Water resources consultant Artesia Consulting is looking for ambitious and enterprising people who can contribute to the continued growth of our water resources consultancy work. Your role: Your role will be primarily to help deliver a wide range of interesting and...

Water resources planning has been facing something of an uncertain future over the last few years, but recent progress by regulators and government have blown away some of the fog to reveal a clearer view of the future plans for managing our most precious resource.

At the end of August this year Torgny Holmgren, executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) summarized the voices of the World Water Week when he said, “Water is what binds together all the aspects of climate change. Climate change is water change.” (1)

After a long period of working closely together, Artesia has recently taken over Callidus, to form a single team of water and data scientists.  The skills and experience of the new team members complement Artesia's strong track record in delivering water resource...

Despite stultifying sandstorms and serious threats from terrorists and high political drama, water and wastewater utilities in Egypt continue to do their best to provide services to their communities. Artesia’s Simon Gordon-Walker has been working with VNG, a Dutch...

Artesia is working with South East Water to find out South East Water is building on previous research which shows installing water meters in customers’ homes reduces water consumption by an average of 15 per cent per household. The company has found when a water...

CIWEM Conference on the Water Act 2014: Resilience in Practice “Resilience” seems to be the new buzz word within the water industry, but why? and what does it actually mean?  Victoria Ashton attended CIWEM’s Water Act – Resilience in Practice conference last week and...

WWF-UK has asked Artesia to look at ways to encourage the private sector to get more involved in water stewardship and to manage the effects of agriculture on water quality. Diffuse pollution from agriculture and rural land use is directly attributed to 28% of...

Simon Gordon-Walker has just returned from assignment in The Kyrgyz Republic.  Over the last eighteen months Simon has been working to support the development of a water supply and wastewater sector strategy which has now been formally approved by Government.  In this...

Demand forecasting project win with UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) Artesia, with Richard Critchley and Ben Anderson as sub-consultants, has been awarded an important new project to provide a manual for the UK water industry on forecasting the household demand for...

Introduction Water companies’ plans for AMP6, which runs from 2015-2020, include more plans to cut leakage and to reduce the demand from household customers than ever before.  For example, Affinity Water plan to cut leakage by 27 Ml/d, or 14% by 2020.  Similarly,...

Artesia is working with Wessex Water on a project that will provide the foundations to deliver the company’s long-term leakage aim: to reduce leakage by 25% over the next 25 years. Managing leakage has always been important to Wessex Water. The company has halved...