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Applications will be opening in April for new apprentices to join South East Water’s successful two-year apprenticeship programme.

The water industry is fully committed to the training and career development of apprentices as part of its work to deliver its commitments to its customers and the environment, now and for the future.

Water companies are set to complete a five-year investment programme worth £25 billion, while keeping rises in the average household water and sewerage bill below inflation in 2014-15. In November 2009, a five-year package of investment and prices was finalised and April 2014 sees the final year of that package.

This week Water UK published for the first time an extensive set of statistics relating to the performance of services by water and sewerage companies for their developer customers. Arising from the Government's Better Connected guide, this new quarterly report aims to provide transparency about companies' performance over a wide range of activities, with a view to driving up standards.

A website is up and running for landlords to provide voluntarily basic contact information about their tenants so water companies can register them for billing and tackle this major source of water debt.

Now in its 15th year, the Water UK Leakage Conference brings together the industry with regulators, government and key stakeholders to explore innovative leakage management in a changing and unpredictable climate. This year will build upon the challenges surrounding customers and communication as well as exploring operational and technical perspectives.