South West Water was fined £1.853 million - a record fine for a drinking water offence – at Exeter Magistrates’ Court yesterday and ordered to pay £75,000 following a prosecution by the Drinking Water Inspectorate for drinking water failures.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is warning countries across the world that an El Niño extreme weather event is set to arrive in the coming months with 90% certainty.
Binnies UK, a global whole-life-cycle engineering service provider, has appointed Matt Clegg as Director of its Flood Coast and Environment (FCE) business unit.
Yorkshire Water has gone out to tender with an AMP8 contract for fixed gas detectors and maintenance with an estimated total value of £1.26 million including VAT.
The Environment Agency has published a position statement on the use of nature-based solutions (NbS) to support sustainable water resources, which includes how they work, benefits and current evidence.
South West Water will learn whether it faces multi-million pound fines this week in two separate prosecutions brought by the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) and the Environment Agency.
United Utilities is inviting residents in the Haslingden area to find out more about progress on the Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme (HARP).
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Thames Water has gone out to tender with an AMP8 contract for access security products with a total estimated value of £36.36 million including VAT.
A new report is highlighting that overlooking sustainable water and energy management is actively hindering building and operating data centres efficiently and responsibly, threatening the UK's pursuit of digital leadership.
James Sumsion, CEO of predictive water intelligence specialists Kohtari, says the water sector needs to take a giant leap forward, so that it can anticipate and act upon water quality issues - rather than merely react.
Ray Moulds, Sales Director at Flood Control International, takes a look at how automated sliding floodgates are supporting secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites.
With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, then environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”
ERG, the leading supplier of odour control systems and industrial gas cleaning & thermal systems, has been awarded the coveted King’s Award for Enterprise.