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The Grand Union Canal Transfer is a plan to bring water from the Midlands to the southeast.
It’s a joint water transfer project between two water companies, Affinity Water and Severn Trent, and the Canal & River Trust, the charity that owns the canal network in England and Wales.
The idea is that water would be transferred using the existing canal infrastructure alongside new assets, including water treatment works, pipelines, pumping stations and environmental mitigation works.
Affinity Water is the largest water-only supplier in the UK, serving more than 3.8 million people across the southeast of England. It has published a prior information notice (PIN) inviting market engagement from suitable suppliers ahead of drafting a development consent application, which will start the planning application process.
Affinity Water is looking to use a competitively appointed provider (CAP) through some form of design-build-finance (DBF) or design-build-finance-operate-maintain (DBFOM) type of model.
The PIN seeks market engagement from “suitably qualified parties capable of delivering a secure, sustainable, and value-oriented solution for customers aligned with long-term national water resilience objectives”
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