Yorkshire Water's retail business arm Kelda Water Services Retail, in partnership with Loop Customer Management, have appointed Echo Managed Services to deliver the billing and customer relationship management solution for its commercial customers.

North Yorkshire County Council's planning committee has given the go-ahead for Third Energy to undertake fracking for shale gas in the vicinity of Kirby Misperton.

Severn Trent Water has awarded a six year contract for the repair and refurbishment of water process pumps worth up to £9 million.

NI Water has extended the deadline to tender for a contract for repair and maintenance services worth up to £3 million until 3^rd June 2016.

A new system developed by Northumbrian Water Group for reading and monitoring utility meters has been launched to help businesses and organisations to cut bills.

Flood mapping software developed by a Brighton company is now using cloud-piercing, day-night satellite data, adding even greater detail to its highly accurate 3D models of flooding events.

Severn Trent Water, Yorkshire Water and United Utilities are contributing to a project to protect thousands of acres of South Pennines moorland and peat bogs as a new EU-funded €12 million restoration project gets underway.

Businesses in a County Durham village are being urged to help take care of the environment after a release of oil into the area’s sewers reached Northumbrian Water’s Sacriston sewage treatment works and a local watercourse, the Black Burn.

South Staffordshire Water and Cambridge Water have jointly launched a new fund aimed at actively encouraging and enhancing biodiversity in the local environment.

Anglian Water is working in partnership with Lincolnshire County Council on a new £800,000 scheme to manage surface water at Stamp End in Lincoln to reduce the risk of flooding to roads, homes and businesses during heavy rainfall.