The Environment Agency has gone out to tender with a framework contract for the supply of tractors worth up to £10 million.

A key feature of the Highways England scheme to help tackle Lindal ‘dip’ flooding will be to install a large drain across the carriageway to funnel and channel away run-off water from the A590. Existing drainage will also be replaced with new kerb drains and gullies.

Jacopa has delivered two of its packaged rotating biological contactors (RBCs) to help a wastewater treatment plant in rural south-west Wales meet a more stringent Natural Resources Wales discharge consent.

Jersey Water is preparing to bring Val De La Mare reservoir back in to service after five months following the discovery in February of pesticide Oxadixyl in streams feeding the reservoir. 

Working in collaboration with the University of Sheffield, the Future Water Association has announced a set of training modules designed specifically for companies operating within the water and waste water sectors.

French President Francois Hollande declared a state of natural disaster at the Congress of mayors of France, held in Paris yesterday after the River Seine burst its banks and swept through the French capital.

A High Peak animal feed business was fined £18,000 today for discharging polluting waste into the public sewer and causing damage to a treatment works.

The novel use of testing for the presence of newts using DNA found in water samples has seen South East Water win a prestigious national award.