News

Customers Urged to Use Water Efficiently to Help Maintain Normal Supplies

As Scotland has driest start to the year for more than 60 years, we're asking customers to help protect resources

15 May 2025

Safety and Family Time Driving Surge in Adult Swim Lessons

Adults across Scotland are being encouraged to take the plunge and confront their water fears with the #Never Too Late adult swimming lessons

09 May 2025

South Lanarkshire School Makes a Wave in Scottish Water Challenge

A secondary school in South Lanarkshire has won Scottish Water’s 2025 Making Waves Challenge as part of an education programme to encourage young people to protect the future of Scotland’s water

08 May 2025

Scottish Water Top Up Taps Save 15 Million Bottles

Scottish Water’s innovative network of Top Up Taps has achieved a significant milestone, saving the equivalent of 15 million plastic bottles

02 May 2025

Major Project to Enhance the Environment in Murrayfield

We have unveiled plans for a £1.7million project to help prevent rags, wet wipes and other sewer related debris from entering a picturesque Edinburgh watercourse.

02 May 2025

Wave of Investments to Drain the Rain and Enhance the Environment

Work on the first wave of projects in our £500million commitment to provide peace of mind to customers and real benefits for the environment is due to get underway

01 May 2025

Biodiversity Improvements Carried Out at Inchgarth Reservoir

Work to provide an improved habitat for wading and farmland birds, as well as protecting and enhancing biodiversity, has been carried out on land around a popular Aberdeen reservoir

24 April 2025

Loch Katrine's 400-Hectare Peatland Restoration Project 

The first phase of a 400-hectare peatland restoration project at Loch Katrine is now complete

16 April 2025

Solar Scheme Set to Help Power Gorbals Water Pumps

A £636,000 solar project which will help pump water to thousands of customers in South Ayrshire is now complete

15 April 2025

Critical Phase for Multi-Million-Pound Rising Sewer Main Upgrade

Our £11.5million project to upgrade a vital strategic rising sewer main between Renfrew and Glasgow is entering a key phase

14 April 2025

Top Up Tap at Kilmacolm Library a 'Novel' Idea

Children from Kilmacolm Nursery in Inverclyde recently quenched their thirst for learning at a Scottish Water Top Up Tap located just outside the village’s library

08 April 2025

Perth Flourishes: Scottish Water and Beautiful Perth Bring Colour to Tay Street

Scottish Water has continued its successful partnership with Beautiful Perth as volunteers from the publicly-owned utility joined forces with the local charity to plant vibrant new blooms in planters that were donated last year

04 April 2025

Underground giant lowered deep into Edinburgh chamber

Scottish Water is nearing completion of a £5 million investment in Edinburgh’s waste water network following the installation of a nine-tonne screw pump into an underground chamber at McDonald Road Waste Water Pumping Station

03 April 2025

SSE and Scottish Water Horizons launch heat networks partnership in Highland capital

Inverness is set to benefit from pioneering green heating technology as part of a major new partnership between SSE Energy Solutions and Scottish Water Horizons 

13 March 2025

Young eco-warriors: New Monkland Pupils plant trees after major sewer upgrade

New Monkland Primary School pupils assist in tree planting following major infrastructure upgrade

07 March 2025