INVESTMENT of more than £3.4million in the Scottish Water network in the south of Glasgow has been completed.

The company said the work, which also covered parts of Cambuslang, is helping to improve the natural environment of watercourses.

Scottish Water has finished a number of improvement projects on parts of the waste water network in the Corkerhill, Thornliebank, Pollokshaws and Cathcart areas to help improve the environment of the White Cart Water and the Clyde.

The work is part of a major investment by the firm in the Greater Glasgow area's waste water infrastructure announced in February 2013.

The £250million investment is the biggest in the Greater Glasgow area's waste water network in more than a century.

It will improve river water quality and the natural environment of the River Clyde and its tributaries, allow the area to grow and develop, alleviate sewer flooding and deal with the effects of increased rainfall and climate change.

Work was carried out at locations near Corkerhill Road and Kinnell Avenue in the Corkerhill/Cardonald area, Bengal Street in Pollokshaws, Holmbank Avenue in Shawlands, Millholm Road in Cathcart and at Morriston Street and Johnson Drive in Cambuslang.

Other projects involving the installation of new infrastructure, at a cost of an additional £1.6m, are due to start at Holmbank Avenue, Shawlands on about September 22 and at Holmhead Crescent off Clarkston Road in January next year.

Mark Maclaren, Scottish Water's regional communities team manager, said: "Scottish Water's investment in these parts of Glasgow and South Lanarkshire will deliver major environmental benefits for years to come.

"We know local people will appreciate that any short-term inconvenience while this work was carried out will be far out-weighed by the long-term benefits to the environment that it will deliver."

vivienne.nicoll @eveningtimes.co.uk