The UK’s water industry recorded more than 1 million underground asset searches in 2024, making it the second biggest contributor to the UK’s safe digging industry.

It currently accounts for 27.5% of the 3.9 million LSBUD searches made across the UK, and sees a search placed every 6.9 seconds during the average working day, according to Digging up Britain 2025. It comes in second to only telecoms, which placed 1.4 million searches.

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