ACQUIRE blog published by Ofwat: Turning incident learning into practical decision support: ACQUIRE’s Water Discovery Challenge journey (July 2026)

A winner of the first Water Discovery Challenge 1 competition, the project is using Drinking Water Inspectorate incident reports submitted by water companies to unlock historical learning and support better water quality incident response. In this guest blog the team reflects on: 

• The mentorship support they received through the Discovery programme to develop their solution

• Working with the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) to strengthen the evidence base behind the project

• Next steps for the project moving forwards

https://waterinnovation.challenges.org/water-discovery-challenge-prize/acquire-journey/