Northumbrian Water has gone out to tender with a contract for laboratory services worth up to £4.25 million.

As part of a £7 million joint flood reduction scheme started by Northumbrian Water and the Environment Agency in October 2014, the River Ouseburn was diverted yesterday to reduce flood risk.

Welsh Water’s parent company, Glas Cymru Holdings Cyf, is today celebrating 15 years since buying the water and sewerage company on 11th May 2001 and creating the first - and still only - not-for-profit water company in England and Wales.

The Environment Agency has started work to repair the seals on the glass panels along High Hill in Keswick after they were damaged during the December 2015 floods as part of an extensive £10 million inspection and repair programme in Cumbria.

Leading drainage contractor Flowline has been awarded a major new 6 year contract by Anglian Water following a successful competitive tendering process.

A new research study says that climate change and extreme weather – including unusually wet summers in the UK – are linked to high pressure weather systems over Greenland, one of the fastest-warming regions of the world.

Natural Resources Wales has published a report presenting the results of its monitoring and reporting programme against the standards in the revised Bathing Water Directive - 2015 is the first year that the stricter standards set in the revised directive were applied in Wales.

The European Commission has asked France to provide additional information about how the European Directive on priority substances in the field of water policy (Directive 2013/39/EU) is being enacted in their domestic law.