Amount awarded: £3,973,205
Led by: Northumbrian Water
Partners: Aiimi Limited, Anglian Water Service Limited, Costain Limited, Dwr Cymru Cyfyngedig (Welsh Water), Icebreaker One Limited, Open Data Institute Trading Limited, Scottish Water, SES Water Plc, Severn Trent Plc, Sia Partners UK Plc, South West Water Limited, Southern Water Services Limited, United Utilities Water Limited, Wessex Water Limited, Yorkshire Water Services Limited
See project updates on Stream’s LinkedIn page.
Stream will unlock the potential of water data to benefit customers, society, and the environment. Stream will put in place technology and processes to remove the barriers to opening up and sharing water company data. The demand for transparency and openness has never been greater and we’ve built a strong team to deliver this quickly and efficiently. Our partners bring great experience and learning from having done this in other sectors such as banking and energy. Stream is not just focused on a single issue but will support hundreds of future data projects. We have many tough challenges in the sector, and we need to use our data to work with many groups and organisations because the challenges and solutions don’t stop at water company boundaries. Being able to collaborate around data is a key ingredient to drive innovation and improve sector performance.
We have been preparing for and releasing our Day-1 version of Stream – the enduring open data platform for all things water data. We’ve used all the feedback and information we have learned from the MVP and beyond to go live on schedule in April, with new functionality and new datasets. Our progress is being managed around 4 key themes: Technology, Use Case & Data sets, Eco System and Process
This initiative builds on the Breakthrough 2 project, Stream.
We’re now live on our enduring open data platform (www.streamwaterdata.co.uk) and focusing on our next group of use cases and datasets to be released shortly. We’re also working on building up our community of users and, now that we have a stable platform in place, we’re reaching out to many other projects and organisations who could benefit from Stream. We’re also working closely with our regulators, Oftwat, the EA and Defra to ensure we join up our efforts in the open data space, work together where possible and learn from each other.
For more information on Stream, take a look at the following resources:
