United Utilities water engineers have finally located a faulty ‘talking’ valve which was sending wrong information back to a control centre after a 10-day search.

Yorkshire Water has awarded a contract for post office counter services to take customer payment for bills.

Scientists in the UK, Spain and Italy have developed a way to monitor the effect of climate change and pollution on the environment, by creating a special kind of plant which have in-built sensors.

Israel has signed an association agreement with Horizon 2020, the new EU research and innovation programme.

Southern Water’s ‘Cleaner Seas for Sussex’ scheme, in which Costain and its 4Delivery partners MWH and Veolia Water were the principal contractors, has won Project of the Year at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Awards South East.

Phase two of the Sirius programme led by the government department, UK Trade & Investment launched on 8 May capitalising on the proven overseas success of the first phase.

The Scottish Environmental Publication Agency has published a new report on the state of the environment in Scotland - the first major update since it was last published in 2011.

United Utilities has set out the steps it is taking to deal with the threats posed by flash flooding, highlighted by the Met Office severe weather warning issued for tomorrow forecasting heavy rain which may bring some river and surface water flooding across England and Wales.

Sutton and East Surrey Water has awarded a £23 million power contract for the supply of half hourly electricity to its half hourly sites.

Wessex Water has awarded two separate contracts for the supply of chemicals during AMP6 with a combined total value of £1m.