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You couldn't make it up: Thames Water wins regulator's innovation competition

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Thames Water will receive 16.9 m to examine how technologies like robotics and trenchless repair methods could help fix leaks in the future without the need to dig trenches and all the associated disruption this causes.

The regulator's Water Breakthrough Challenge ’ dishes out 40 m worth of prizes to Britain ’s water companies, with the money coming from taxpayers’ pockets.

Thames Water is currently losing more than 600 m litres of water every day .

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