Jonathan Grant, Sustainability & Climate Change Director at PwC, offers a reality check on the Paris Agreement signed on Saturday at the UN Climate Summit in Paris.

Cathryn Ross, Chief Executive of Ofwat, has reassured water company Chief Executives that Ofwat’s work on assessing the benefits of extending competition to domestic customers in England will not compromise the timescales for non-household retail market opening and its work on the policy framework and methodology for PR19.

Atkins has been appointed as lead consultant with partners Mott McDonald and Nera Economic Consulting to carry out a major project for Water UK on the resilience of UK water supplies.

New proposals by Ofwat look set to usher even more competition into the UK water sector, including plans to open up the market for increased water trading, energy generation from sewage sludge and more direct procurement of large-scale infrastructure investments like the Thames Tideway Tunnel.

Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss has announced that the Government is to set up a National Flood Resilience Review to examine how to better protect the country from future flooding and increasingly extreme weather events.

Glas Cymru Cyfyngedig, the not-for-profit owner of Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water, is in discussion with its Members and lenders to restructure the group in order to increase its ability to pursue limited commercial activities to widen the range of its service to customers and to adapt to changes in the water sector.