The UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) are jointly inviting proposals for collaborative research networking projects on sustaining water resources for food, energy and ecosystem services.

United Utilities is continuing to advise customers in Lancashire to boil their water until further notice – five days on since the company found traces of a parasite at its Franklaw water treatment works.

Royal Imtech N.V. has announced that it has today filed a request to be granted a suspension of payments with the District Court Rotterdam. The court has granted the request and has appointed administrators.

The Environment Agency is launching a public consultation on how to best manage future flood risk in the Black Sluice catchment.

Thames Water is on a recruitment drive to fill more than 300 vacancies in a bid to become Britain’s top-performing water company.

A £2.9 million flood alleviation scheme planned for Barry in Wales and funded by the Welsh Government will save an estimated £50 million in potential flood damage costs.

Anglian Water has gone out to tender with a contract  for coastal waters surveys worth an estimated £3. 4 million.

NG Bailey, the UK’s largest independent engineering, IT and facilities services group, has announced a strong financial performance for the year to 27 February 2015, with a 43 per cent rise in underlying operating profit to £3m.

St Gobain PAM UK has been awarded a £5 million-plus contract to supply manhole covers to Bournemouth Water, Wessex Water, Bristol Water , Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water and Wales & West Utilities Limited.