British Water
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15th June 2022
Creating a More Collaborative Environment in the Water Sector to Improve Innovation and Contract Delivery
There are 12 water and sewage companies across the regions and nations of the United Kingdom. The water sector, in comparison to others within energy, should inspire greater collaboration because water providers know their customer base and are not directly competing with their rivals for the right to supply to domestic customers.
The sector is heavily regulated and, despite reforms within the last decade, is still a regional monopoly.
We know that competition drives innovation. In the 1990s, Apple knew that they needed to change their approach to counter the dominance of Microsoft, becoming the world’s first trillion-dollar company as a result.