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
Visit the Stream platform and 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.
This initiative builds on the Breakthrough 2 project, Stream.
We’re live with our open data platform and continuing to work on publishing data and building our ecosystem of users. The last 6 months has seen us go live with the National Storm Overflow Hub in conjunction with Water UK. This brings together near real-time discharge data for all the storm overflows in England in one interactive map for the first time in the world. We have also run a series of hackathons for Open Data Day in March in collaboration with a number of UK Universities, which got students hands on with the data we’re publishing related to river water quality and catchments. We also won an award in December – Open UK award for Open Data sponsored by the ODI – awarded at the gala event at the House of Lords. .
For more information on Stream 2, take a look at the following resources:
