Severn Trent Water has said it will compensate all 3,700 customers, both domestic and business, who were directly affected for an extended period of time by loss of their water supply as a result of Friday's over-chlorination incident.

Northumbrian Water is on the hunt for renewable energy partners – the water company has gone out to tender with a contract for partners who will secure 100 % of the required funding and then deliver renewable energy solutions for its sites.

A new report from the London Assembly Environment Committee is warning that Londoners are facing drinking water shortfalls, with demand is outstripping supply in the capital, while sewer overflows and flood risk are increasing as intense rainfall becomes more frequent.

The Environment Agency has confirmed that the £7.5 million budget it usually spends in Yorkshire each year on maintaining flood defences has already been spent in just the last two months since the region was hit by devastating floods.

A recent high-level event which took place at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Lancaster House last month could see the way forward to the possibilities of greater technology and water resource sharing in the water-stressed Middle East – with Israel serving as a model to address global water challenges.

In a case brought by the Environment Agency,  Thames Water has been fined £380,000 for polluting a rural stream  at its  Princes Risborough sewage treatment works (STW)site attributed to “lamentable” management failures.