Around £20 million is to be invested to improve Edinburgh's drinking water network.

More than 165,000 people are to benefit from the Scottish Water scheme, which will see almost seven miles of new mains installed to ensure a more resilient supply of fresh water in parts of Edinburgh and Livingston.

The 24-month project will be carried out by Caledonia Water Alliance in an area of the Pentland Hills. Works involve building a two-way treated water link between Marchbank Water Treatment Works near Balerno and Glencorse Water Treatment Works near to the Pentland Hills Regional Park.

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The extended network will also have the capacity to link to other existing and future water supplies across parts of the south of Scotland. Construction work is scheduled to start later this month.

Scottish Water's Director of Capital Investment, Mark Dickson, said: "Interruptions to supply can have a significant impact on our customers, with customers telling us that resilient supply is a big priority for them.

"In order to keep delivering high quality, great tasting water to customers we now need to further improve the reliability and resilience of our water supply systems and this project will do just that for Edinburgh."

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