Leading multi-disciplinary professional services firm WSP has announced its appointment by the Environment Agency to update and maintain existing groundwater models in Lincolnshire and East Anglia.

The year 2023 marked the driest year for global rivers in over three decades, according to a new report coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which signaled critical changes in water availability in an era of growing demand.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) has developed a new model that provides a unique tool for simulating groundwater resources at a national scale, covering England, Scotland and Wales.

A new United Nations report is warning that drastic changes are approaching with risk tipping points that threaten irreversible impacts on people and planets.

New research into how quantum sensing technology can benefit environmental sciences has been launched at the University of Birmingham.

In conjunction with World Water Day, the United Nations has published the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR), UN-Water’s flagship report on water and sanitation issues, which is focussed on a different theme each year.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has launched two new consultations on plans to modernise water abstraction and enhance the Environment Agency's (EA) powers to protect groundwater.

Farmers in United Utilities’ groundwater safeguard zones in Cheshire are being invited to take part in a free trial to help improve nitrogen use on their farms.

With recent dry weather and low groundwater levels, Geoff Darch, Water Resources Strategy Manager at Anglian Water, looks at the ways the water company is meeting the challenge of protecting rivers in its region.

Heathrow Airport’s consultation on its preferred expansion masterplan – known as the Design Consent Order Project - published this week includes details of potentially significant negative impacts on the surrounding floodplain, rivers and lakes.