Water

 

Water

Water is becoming one of the most regulated, costly and operationally critical resources that organisations manage. Mitie helps clients navigate this complexity, from advisory and compliance through to treatment, engineering and wastewater recycling.

Through Total Water and Marlowe Environmental Services, we bring specialist expertise together into a single, end‑to-end offer, protecting water quality, strengthening resilience and helping clients meet tightening regulatory and ESG requirements. The following pages show this in action.

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 ​​  Making Waves: Introducing Total Water​

 ​​  Advancing water stewardship

Managed Water Services

Making waves: Introducing Total Water​

Mitie has launched Total Water, a new integrated water management offering developed following the acquisition of Marlowe. As water becomes increasingly regulated, costly and operationally complex, Total Water brings all of Mitie and Marlowe’s water expertise into one end‑to‑end service to help clients reduce risk, improve compliance and strengthen resilience.​

The new model provides complete visibility and control across the full water cycle, combining data, insight and specialist engineering to help organisations manage usage, reduce waste and meet tightening regulatory and ESG requirements. Total Water covers advisory services, water retail, hygiene and treatment, engineering and technology, wastewater recycling, and training and compliance.​

Positioned under Marlowe Environmental Services, Total Water creates a clearer, simplified offer for clients, and supports Mitie’s ambition to deliver smarter, more sustainable water solutions across its portfolio. 

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Total Water is a major step forward for us, under the Marlowe Environmental Services brand. By bringing our expertise together, we can offer clients a simpler, smarter way to manage water. It helps them stay safe and compliant today, while also preparing for the challenges of tomorrow.

Stuart Bleazard
Managing Director

Marlowe Environment Services

Marlowe Environmental Services

Advancing water stewardship through innovative wastewater treatment

Clean water is essential for healthy communities, thriving ecosystems and sustainable economic growth. However, increasing environmental regulation, population growth and pressure on water infrastructure are creating new challenges for organisations responsible for managing wastewater. Through Marlowe Environmental Services, Mitie helps clients address these challenges with specialist treatment solutions designed to improve water quality, maintain compliance and support long-term environmental resilience.

Protecting water quality and ecosystems

Effective wastewater treatment plays a vital role in preventing pollutants from entering rivers, streams and groundwater. By removing contaminants such as suspended solids, ammonia and organic matter before treated water is discharged, advanced treatment technologies help protect water resources and reduce environmental risk.

Marlowe Environmental Services has delivered treatment solutions across a diverse range of operational environments, from critical water infrastructure to specialist conservation facilities. These projects help clients meet environmental discharge requirements while supporting the protection of local ecosystems and biodiversity.

Building resilient infrastructure

Wastewater networks increasingly face challenges from ageing assets, groundwater infiltration, flooding and fluctuating treatment demands. Flexible and modular treatment technologies can help operators maintain treatment performance while adapting to changing environmental conditions.

Marlowe Environmental Services has supported water utility clients through the deployment of modular biological treatment and filtration technologies designed to manage variable flows, increase operational resilience and maintain compliance with increasingly stringent environmental standards. The scalability of these systems also enables future expansion, helping organisations plan for long-term infrastructure requirements while reducing the need for major asset replacement.

Driving innovation and resource efficiency

The future of wastewater management extends beyond treatment alone. Emerging technologies are creating opportunities to recover valuable resources from wastewater streams while reducing environmental impacts.

Marlowe Environmental Services is working with industry partners to explore innovative approaches, including algae-based treatment technologies capable of removing phosphorus and nitrogen from wastewater. These solutions have the potential to support nutrient recovery, reduce reliance on conventional treatment processes and contribute to more circular approaches to resource management.

Research and development initiatives such as these are helping to identify new ways to improve environmental performance while supporting the transition towards more sustainable and resource-efficient wastewater treatment.

Delivering environmental value for clients

Through Marlowe Environmental Services, Mitie helps clients protect local waterways, reduce pollution risks, maintain regulatory compliance and strengthen resilience to changing environmental conditions. By combining proven treatment technologies with innovative approaches to water management, Mitie is supporting more sustainable outcomes for clients, communities and the environment.

Wastewater engineer.

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There is a demonstrable growing demand for adaptable wastewater treatment technologies that give water companies greater flexibility in meeting the needs of tightening regulatory standards.

James Greenwood

Head of Sales, WCS Environmental Engineering

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