The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are producing a special report on climate change and the oceans and the cryosphere (SROCC). The UK Focal Point, based in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), is inviting expressions of interest from UK experts to participate in the scoping of this special report.

Wessex Water has launched a new campaign aimed at encouraging greater uptake of metering by its customers.

Scottish Water has gone out to tender with a contract for the provision of pressure management services worth an estimated £5 million.

Balfour Beatty plc, the international infrastructure group, has announced that it has exited in full from Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Partners LLP in a $64.4 million sale.

In a case brought by the Environment Agency, a Dorset farm company has been ordered to pay almost £12,000 in fines and costs for polluting the same stream twice – first with slurry and then silage. The spills occurred within five months of each other.

Morrison Utility Services (MUS), the leading utility services provider in the UK, has developed a ‘lone worker app’ that provides significant new safety measures for operatives working in isolation.

Dutch research institute Deltares has designed a unique seepage system to preserve fresh groundwater resources from sea level rise.

Yorkshire Water, in co-operation with the Environment Agency,  has set out proposals to introduce a trial compensation releases regime in the River Washburn.

Engineering solutions provider Costain has issued a trading update ahead of its results for the six months ended 30 June 2016 which will be announced on 24 August 2016.