More than 2,300 people who use water but have never received a bill could face substantial back-charges after having their homes identified in the opening fortnight of an audit of Thames Water's entire customer base.

Chemical manufacturer Scott Bader has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £7,656 costs after xylene leaked undetected from its Wollaston Hall site near Wellingborough.

Three major research and development projects that will help to develop the wave and tidal stream energy technologies of the future are set to benefit from government investment of over £2.5 million.

The first of five micro-tunnels 27 metres below Preston city centre is underway at Watery Lane. United Utilities is constructing eight kilometres of tunnels at a cost of £114m, to stop wastewater flowing into the River Ribble during heavy storms.

Yorkshire Water will start work next week on a £1million programme of work in a flood-prone area of Withernsea to reduce the risk of sewer flooding in the town.

The Environment Agency has published its ‘Blue Corridor’ vision for Derby and the Lower Derwent Flood Risk Management Strategy.

United Utilities is to fence some of the highest and most remote points in Lancashire, ravaged by wildfires sixty years ago, to allow its eroded landscape to recover.

A new report published by the Water Industry Commission for Scotland (WICS) highlights a remarkable transformation since Scottish Water was created in 2002.