An innovative South West Water project to develop a new approach to mapping and predicting areas in the South West which are most at risk of groundwater infiltration is now in its second phase after a successful pilot.
Leading multi-disciplinary professional services firm WSP has announced its appointment by the Environment Agency to update and maintain existing groundwater models in Lincolnshire and East Anglia.
The year 2023 marked the driest year for global rivers in over three decades, according to a new report coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which signaled critical changes in water availability in an era of growing demand.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) has developed a new model that provides a unique tool for simulating groundwater resources at a national scale, covering England, Scotland and Wales.
A new United Nations report is warning that drastic changes are approaching with risk tipping points that threaten irreversible impacts on people and planets.
New research into how quantum sensing technology can benefit environmental sciences has been launched at the University of Birmingham.
In conjunction with World Water Day, the United Nations has published the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR), UN-Water’s flagship report on water and sanitation issues, which is focussed on a different theme each year.
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has launched two new consultations on plans to modernise water abstraction and enhance the Environment Agency's (EA) powers to protect groundwater.
Farmers in United Utilities’ groundwater safeguard zones in Cheshire are being invited to take part in a free trial to help improve nitrogen use on their farms.

With recent dry weather and low groundwater levels, Geoff Darch, Water Resources Strategy Manager at Anglian Water, looks at the ways the water company is meeting the challenge of protecting rivers in its region.
Albion Water, the first NAV (New Appointment & Variation) to have been established in1999 and now under the ownership of SDS Water Group, has appointed Andy Holland as its new Director of Business Development.
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.