Water & Workforce

Plan your water work around a £104bn envelope and the workforce that has to build it.

UK and Ireland water, wastewater and construction skills intelligence.

Nine volumes on this sector, every figure traced to a named primary source and carried at a stated verification date. We read Ofwat, Defra, RAPID, DESNZ and the ECITB census so that you do not have to. Scroll down to see what is in them.

The problem

£104bn is committed to water. The constraint is no longer capital.

It is people.

The root cause

Why can it not be built? Clean energy alone needs to go from 440,000 workers to 860,000 by 2030.

The ECITB workforce census records 81 per cent of renewables employers already experiencing hiring difficulty, against a need for 40,000 additional engineering-construction workers by 2030.

The turn

Nine volumes tell you where the money is and who can staff it.

PR24’s £104bn envelope, the £88bn storm overflows programme and the £20–30bn strategic resource options — read from Ofwat, Defra and RAPID, and dated.

Proof

Eleven undertakers in England and Wales, plus Scottish Water and NI Water. We read all thirteen.

Every performance commitment, every RAPID gate, every business plan, traced back to the publication it came from.

What you get

Check which of the eleven undertakers holds the budget for the work you are bidding for, and when it lands.

Track the five RAPID gates on SESRO, Anglian, Severn-Thames and Teddington against their published cost progression.

See where the £88bn storm overflows programme is opening Tier 1 supply-chain capacity you can bid into.

Plan your hiring against the occupations the Clean Energy Jobs Plan says will be short by 2030.

A knowledgeable and dependable team who are always willing to help. Their understanding of the UK energy and infrastructure market has been particularly valuable to us.
Claire ThompsonSupply Chain Manager · Balfour Beatty
Volumes in this sector

Underneath all of this — the binding workforce constraint. The £625 million Construction Skills Package targets 60,000 additional workers; the ECITB workforce census records 81% of renewables employers facing hiring challenges. UK & Ireland infrastructure delivery is now workforce-constrained, not capital-constrained.

Watch this sector live on the boards — the Heatmap for its projects, the Data Board for its targets against delivery.

Gap 26

UK Infrastructure Skills Gap.

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Gap 35

PR24 Final Determinations.

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Gap 36

UK Water Resources Management Plans (WRMP24 + WRMP29).

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Gap 37

UK Strategic Resource Options.

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Gap 38

UK Storm Overflows + the CSO Programme.

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Gap 39

UK Industrial Water Demand + Data Centre Cooling.

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Gap 40

UK Drought Planning + Climate Resilience.

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Gap 41

UK Water Sector Bioresources + Circular Economy.

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Gap 42

UK Devolved Water — Scottish Water + NI Water.

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Open any volume and you get consultancy-grade depth: twelve findings, headline figures, the Director's Six-Check, a glossary of named entities, and named UK undertakers + suppliers + civils consortia. deep report PDF + two-page Crib Sheet + quarterly Currency Addendum.

£295 single volume · £995 annual subscription: one named reader — the full multi-volume catalogue, every new volume released during the year, and subscriber briefing extras. Team £2,495/yr (up to 10 named readers) · Enterprise £4,995/yr (whole company, up to 250 employees) · Corporate £9,995/yr (above 250 employees).

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