By Andy Silvester Thames Water, the embattled utilities outfit currently losing more than 600m litres worth of water every day and which has pumped more than 72bn-litres-worth of untreated sewage into the Thames since 2020, has won an innovation award run by the regulator. Thames Water will receive £16.9m “to examine how technologies like robotics and trenchless repair methods could help fix leaks in the future without the need to dig trenches and all the associated disruption this causes.” The regulator’s ‘Water Breakthrough Challenge’ dishes out £40m worth of prizes to Britain’s water compan…