We cover news from public bodies and utility companies for UK households on power cuts, weather, water, health, safety and security. Each report includes the date and sources, with links to our guides.
Research for CCW and Ofwat finds fewer than one in ten South East Water customers affected by two supply disruptions in Kent and Sussex were satisfied with how the company handled them.
The Drinking Water Inspectorate has concluded that the loss of supply and boil water notice affecting up to 60,170 consumers in the Tunbridge Wells area in November and December 2025 was foreseeable…
A burst water main in Crawley on 27 September 2025 cut water supplies to parts of the town and flooded Southgate Avenue, Crawley Avenue and part of the A23, closing all three.
A burst on a 15-inch trunk main in Llanrumney, Cardiff, alerted Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water on 3 September 2025, and the repair was completed in the early hours of 4 September.
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water told the Welsh Government on 13 August 2025 that a failed repair to a burst main near Bretton Water Treatment Works in Flintshire needed an emergency fix, interrupting supply to…
Anglian Water imposed a hosepipe ban across Norfolk on 11 July 2025 after a long-term rainfall deficit, and the company says restrictions will stay in place until water resources recover.
Yorkshire Water reports that daily water demand in Yorkshire peaked at 1.479 billion litres on 20 June 2025, about 200 million litres above the region's average daily supply.
The Environment Agency's National Framework for Water Resources, published on 17 June 2025, warns England faces a 5 billion litre a day shortfall in public water supplies by 2055 without urgent…
The Environment Agency has warned that England could face a daily water shortfall of 6 billion litres by 2055, with 5 billion litres of that in public supply, under its updated National Framework for…
Southern Water has launched an online water calculator giving households a tailored estimate of their water use and advice on savings, after Met Office figures showed England had just over a third of…
Southern Water repaired a burst on a strategic trunk main near Blackwater on the Isle of Wight, an incident that affected up to 10,000 properties across five areas of the island.
Twenty three schools in Conwy closed on Thursday 16 January and 40 on Friday 17 January after a mains pipe burst near Dolgarrog affected supplies to up to 40,000 properties.
A burst mains pipe near Dolgarrog in Conwy affected water supplies to up to 40,000 properties on 15 and 16 January, with repairs now complete and the network being recharged.
A leak under the Afon Ddu and a power outage shut Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water's Bryn Cowlyd works in January 2025, leaving 114,562 people in North Wales without supply for up to seven days.
Southern Water says water returned to all affected Hampshire properties at 2am on 20 December after a fault at Testwood Water Supply Works, and bottled water stations and deliveries were stood down…
A technical fault at Southern Water's Testwood Water Supply Works left homes across ten Southampton-area postcodes with low pressure or no water, with supply restored to all affected properties by 2am…
Southern Water has finished its investigation into data potentially taken in a cyber attack on its IT systems earlier this year and is notifying affected customers, employees and former employees.
Products installed in Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water's public distribution network between 12 June and 27 August 2024 lacked valid regulation 31 approval, an event later given the highest risk score in Wales.
South West Water issued a boil water notice to around 17,000 households and businesses in the Alston and Hillhead supply areas of Brixham on 15 May 2024 after cryptosporidium was found in the Hillhead…
Cryptosporidium was detected in the Brixham area water supply in May 2024, and around 16,500 households and businesses were issued with a boil water notice.