The CEOs of Aviva, Direct Line Group, Axa, Lloyds Banking Group and Ageas, along with the Claims Director of RSA and the Association of British Insurers have restated their commitment to voluntarily maintaining the 2008 Statement of Principles on flood insurance until the guaranteed affordable flood insurance scheme, Flood Re, is delivered in 2015.

Construction and housebuilding group Galliford Try plc has reported record half year results this morning for the six months ended 31 December 2013.

Southern Water is investing around £470,000 in refurbishing reed beds at two of its wastewater treatment works.

Severn Trent Water is starting work on two major schemes costing around £6.5 million to protect properties against sewer flood in the face of changing weather patterns and increasingly heavy rainfall.

Novo Nordisk has become the first pharmaceutical company in the world to publish an environmental profit and loss account so that it can further integrate sustainability into its core business – the analysis shows that the environmental impacts of Novo Nordisk’s business cost €223m in 2011.

Construction and regeneration company Morgan Sindall Group plc has seen its profits fall by 34% for the year ended 31 December 2013 – but its forward order book has risen 8% to £2.4 billion.

Water UK, the body which represents the UK and water and wastewater sector at national and European level, have flagged up the role played by the utilities in the emergency response to the current floods.

An important pilot installation to produce bioplastics from wastewater has been officially inaugurated by the Friesland Water Authority (Wetterskip Fryslân) in Leeuwarden.