News & Views - Scottish Water

Stay Safe Around Reservoirs and Watercourses This Summer

We are urging people to stay safe, behave responsibly and not take risks around watercourses such as reservoirs, rivers, lochs and beaches this summer

05 June 2025

Firm Footing for Playing Fields After Years of Shifting Sands

After more than ten years of interventions, a major project in Renfrew has been completed to protect waste water services to customers in Renfrew.

27 May 2025

Scottish Water customer with their new water planter

Innovative Flooding Scheme Completed in Prestwick

An innovative flooding project which saw free water butts and planters offered to residents in Prestwick has been completed.

20 May 2025

Enhancing the Environment in Murrayfield: Major £3million Project to Start

Work on a major £3million project to protect an iconic Edinburgh watercourse from rags, wet wipes and other sewer related debris gets underway next month.

19 May 2025

white watering can watering shrub with pink flowers

Customers Save 60 Million Litres of Water a Day, But More Help is Needed

New data indicates people are increasingly using water more efficiently and helping to protect supplies during the driest start to the year in more than 60 years

19 May 2025

reservoir edge with water tower showing low water line with water tower

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

Amanuel Akulu in a swimming pool taking adult swimming lessons as part of the Never Too Late Learn to Swim programme

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

Group photo of students and staff standing outside Trinity High School holding a banner that reads 'Scottish Water - We won the Generation H₂O Making Waves Challenge'. Everyone is smiling and facing the camera.

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

Inchgarth Biodiversity Initiative members at the edge of one of the new wader scrapes

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