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companies need to collaborate with each other.
“They need to solve these problems once rather than many times. They need to test out innovation in their own patch, but then they need to share the results with each other and make sure that they get on with building the infrastructure that's required.
“We also need to collaborate across civil society. It is really important, for example, that the environmental NGOs play their part. Collaboration that happens between many water companies and environmental NGOs is really good - we just need to see that spread across the whole of the UK.”
of understanding what that means. How does the industry get into root cause analysis of their problems? How do they collaborate and work together to understand how they learn lessons from where things go wrong?”
“I want to get past this compliance issue with the water industry and get us into a collaborative space where we can properly start to think and invest in the water environment.”
Read explores water companies’ proposed asset investment plan for 2025-30. Asked what collaboration looked like in terms of delivering water infrastructure, she said: “It's really important regulators and government work together and speak with one voice, be really clear with the public that there is a need for this new infrastructure.
“So those conversations need to happen and there needs to be the collaboration happening there. Secondly, we need to be collaborating with the whole supply chain and the water
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Nurturing collaboration in independent water research
The Water Research Forum (WRF) was established in 2023 to support UK Water Industry Research’s strategy and here, UKWIR chief executive Steve Kaye and Professor David Butler, University of Exeter, a member of the WRF leadership team, discuss their shared aim to foster collaboration between academia and industry to benefit the UK water sector.
Steve Kaye: The WRF is part of UKWIR’s wider drive to engage more
October 2024 | Steve Kaye
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