US-headquartered global water technology firm Xylem has developed the world’s first wastewater pumping system with integrated intelligence.

Ministers from across the EU signed the Pact of Amsterdam yesterday, putting the European Investment Bank at the heart of the drive to build sustainable communities through local and regional governments.

Mains sewage treatment is being brought to three villages in Slovenia for the first time with the help of a packaged treatment plant manufactured in the UK.

The Board of Wessex Water Services has announced the appointment of a new managing director and chief operating officer  - the appointments take effect from 1 August 2016.

A two-day meeting of water management experts and policy-makers has concluded at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.

A significant installation of solar power at one of the North East’s largest environmental management sites could pave the way for greater use of renewable energy across the region.

Sludge could be one answer to the UK’s energy crisis according to the UK’s leading resource management company, Veolia.

The organisers of Glastonbury Festival, the world’s biggest music festival, have been ordered to pay £31,000 in fines and costs for pollution offences involving human sewage.

The European Environment Agency (EEA) and the European Commission have published the annual report assessing bathing water quality across Europe in 2015 and indicating where it is expected to be good in 2016.