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The Wessex Water Marketplace was delighted to be part of the Smart Water 2020 conference held in Birmingham last week. It was a great opportunity to spread the word about how our Marketplace platform is helping us find new and innovative solutions to the challenges we’re facing in AMP7.

In September we launched a challenge to identify an anti-fouling paint, which would inhibit the growth and build-up of slime, algae and aquatic plants on some of our final effluent humus tank channels at our water recycling centres.

When Ofwat announced its requirements for all water companies to include a bid assessment framework in their 2020-25 business plans, we welcomed the idea with open arms, confirming our beliefs that our open systems approach, and the Wessex Water Marketplace as our first step on that journey, was the right thing to do.

On the 9th May we held a workshop looking at how we can work in partnership to support our customers in vulnerable circumstances. Kate Robbins tells us more.

David Elliott, Chief Innovation officer, explores how the digital world is changing how companies operate.

In autumn 2018 we ran a series of ‘data hackathons’, inviting internal and external staff to explore a data set detailing customer blockages over the past six years.

To those who talk a lot about catchments, regulations, and industry, possibly a bit. But to the wider market – very little. We realised we needed a better title for the ‘Open system’ approach in our business plan and set about trying to find one. We opened the challenge up to our staff, asking them for suggestions on what they thought the new name for open system could be.