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      <image:title>News - Thames Water moves White Horse Reservoir into the next phase</image:title>
      <image:caption>Image: Thames Water. The announcement moves one of the UK's most important future water-security projects into its next delivery phase and signals growing momentum behind strategic resilience investment.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - From funding to floodgates: Kendal milestone shows resilience investment reaching communities</image:title>
      <image:caption>Image: VolkerStevin. Kendal provides visible evidence that resilience investment is moving from policy and funding commitments into tangible community outcomes.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Ofwat puts a price on delay: new penalties guidance raises the stakes on major projects</image:title>
      <image:caption>Image: Ofwat. Ofwat's new guidance attaches financial consequences to the quality and timeliness of major project submissions, raising the stakes across the pipeline.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - One conversation: flood and drought get a joint taskforce, and water moves towards a single regulator</image:title>
      <image:caption>image: Shutterstock. The largest resilience challenges sit between organisational and sector boundaries. Integrated governance may prove as important as physical infrastructure investment.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Three programmes, one workforce: who will build Britain's resilience pipeline?</image:title>
      <image:caption>image: Shutterstock. The policy commitments and funding decisions are largely in place. The next challenge is ensuring the people, capacity and productivity exist to deliver them.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Opinion - The Future of Water Demands More Than Investment. It Demands a Change in Thinking.</image:title>
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