A £2.5 million programme of work by Northumbrian Water to help protect 28 homes in North Tyneside from flooding is due to begin in May.

VolkerStevin Ltd has won a contract worth up to £6.5 million to deliver services and works for pier reconstruction and marine vessel relocations for the Thames Tideway Tunnel Project.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology has announced details of its forthcoming keynote conference for the water sector Water:Process Control & Automation.

Anglian Water has awarded an AMP6 machinery repair and maintenance services contract with an estimated value of £3.5 million.

A new report for the Environment Agency by consultants, Atkins, which describes the development of a decision support tool to help screen rivers in England for the likelihood and extent of sediment-bound phosphorus being released back to the river water, says that more work is needed to understand the issue.

Only four weeks are left for stakeholders to comment on how water environments in the Humber river basin catchment will be looked after over the next five years.

Scottish Water has completed a major £8 million upgrade to increase the capacity of its Penwhirn reservoir by 40 per cent – the reservoir supplies communities throughout Wigtownshire.

The Environment Agency is proposing to vary and revoke two abstraction licences as part of a programme to help restore sustainable abstraction aimed at protecting the River Wensum Special Area of Conservation (SAC).

Four huge mains which have been supplying water to Liverpool since Dickensian times are set to be replaced in a  £6million project by United Utilities to thread  5km of new, plastic pipes through the current cast-iron versions.

Northumbrian Water Group, parent company of Essex & Suffolk Water, has maintained its world title as the only water company to be added to the 2015 World’s Most Ethical Company® list for the fifth year running.