United Utilities is starting work this month on a £14 million programme to upgrade Carlisle's water mains.

The European Investment Bank has approved EUR €8.2 billion of new loans to support thirty-seven new projects which include schemes to reduce river flooding, coastal erosion and landslides in southern Italy and improving flood protection in the Netherlands.

If Totex is going to be embraced and succeed, the time has finally arrived for water companies to look at whether operators are ‘using’ important assets correctly, or inadvertently abusing them, according to Ham Baker’s Spares Maintenance & Service division.

The Scottish Government has published recommendations designed to improve guidance, practice and regulations relating to the spreading of sewage sludge on land in Scotland, following the conclusion of a review into the issue.

Ian Heijne, Client Director for Water Management at global design engineering consultancy Atkins discusses how a new initiative could help communities to a greater say in local flood defence decisions.

Scottish Water has gone out to tender with a contract for emergency potable water tankering services worth an estimated £2.4 million.

The Environment Agency is carrying out work to remove blockages and silt from culverts in a £475,000 project to reduce the risk of flooding to around 1,000 homes in the North East.

South East Water has invested £133,000 in new leak detection technology - the water company spends £13 million everying year on identifying and repairing leaks.