The Building Research Establishment Group(BRE)  has welcomed the Treasury’s £2.3 billion investment in flood defences but with one in six homes now under threat of flooding from rivers, sea and surface water a new approach to dealing with the risks is needed.

Whilst workers from a landmark building in Canada are at home sleeping, Landia’s pumping and mixing equipment is at  work removing highly concentrated sewage at a flow rate of just 2.2 litres per second from a 31,000 litre cistern.

Land and Marine, a subsidiary of J Murphy & Sons, has won the design and construction works contract for the refurbishment of the Haweswater Aqueduct tunnels and conduits.

Southern Water has published its updated plan to tackle sewer flooding in villages along the Nailbourne river near Canterbury.

South East Water will start work in January on an £8.1 million project to replace an old pipeline buried in Burham Marshes which has burst nine times over the past four years - deemed the most complex water main installation project the utility has ever undertaken.

An innovative new environmental wetland project in Cowdenbeath by Scottish Water to treat wastewater is now completed and promises to be a boost for wildlife in the area.

Anglian Water has started work on the first of two tunnels in Market Harborough as part of a £1.5 million project to reduce the risk of surface water flooding in Coventry Road.

A new 2015 agreement on climate change, that will harness action by all nations, took a further important step forward in Lima following two weeks of negotiations by over 190 countries.

Changing the course of the implementation of much-needed SuDS (Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems) from a legislation-based approach to piecemeal local planning could be fatal, particularly as we approach the flood season, according to Keyline, the UK's largest distributor of civils, drainage and utilities materials.