Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has announced this morning that it has completed the sale of two of its UK PPP concessions.

RWE npower renewables has started to construct the £2.5 million Selset Hydroelectric Project. The hydroelectric station is being built at Selset Reservoir, 14 kilometres north west of Barnard Castle in a partnership between RWE npower renewables and Northumbrian Water.

Portsmouth Water has published new documents in support of its Water Resources Management plan which is due to be examined at a forthcoming public hearing.

Yorkshire Water, alongside scientists from the Environment Agency, is embarking on a project to save a rare and endangered plant species - the greater water parsnip - before it disappears from the north of England altogether.

Welsh Water is investing £365,000 in a scheme that will deliver environmental benefits to the village of Heswall on the Wirral.

Anglian Water has confirmed that 42 field jobs are to go – with about 50% as a result of moving to single manning and cutting teams in the field down to one rather than two.

Morgan Sindall is to join its construction business Morgan Ashurst and infrastructure services business Morgan Est to create a new enlarged division under the Morgan Sindall name.

The Environment Agency has prosecuted United Utilities over a serious water pollution incident.