Yorkshire Water began work yesterday on a nature-based wetland in Ilkley, marking the next step of a £60 million investment to improve water treatment and the water quality of the river Wharfe.
The Environment Agency, Clinton Devon Estates, local representatives and project partners gathered on Thursday last week to celebrate the successful completion of the Lower Otter Restoration Project.
The Pebblebed Heaths National Nature Reserve in Devon is due to be significantly expanded by nearly 90 hectares today - in part thanks to a unique piece of coastal engineering, which has seen 50 hectares of internationally important new wetland habitat created.
Severn Trent has completed the main phase of work to create a new wetland in Cinderford, bringing the scheme closer to completion.
Yorkshire Water is set to create a new integrated constructed wetland at its Clifton wastewater treatment works, near Doncaster, which will provide a natural, sustainable and low-carbon way to treat water before returning it to the environment.
UK water companies are invited to join an upcoming webinar which will explore how the sector can take indirect potable reuse (IPR) from concept to full-scale operational reality.
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.”