Scottish Water is helping biodiversity bloom alongside renewable energy generation at Scotland’s largest wastewater pumping station, with a new approach to weaving ecological improvements into suitable projects from the outset.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the reintroduction of Red Kites to the North East, a project, Northumbrian Water is proud to have been part of.

Government remains largely off track to meets its environmental ambitions and must speed up and scale up its efforts in order to achieve them, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has found in its annual progress report published today.

The National Trust is warning that unpredictable weather patterns during the last 12 months have thrown nature into chaos in its annual Weather and Wildlife Review for 2023.

Wessex Water is beginning work on a five-year restoration project as part of the Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP) which will see the water company sensitively improve sites including mixed deciduous woodland, lowland grassland, ponds, lowland meadows and saltmarsh, to the benefit of their associated wildlife.