Marine energy technology company Minesto, together with IT Power and National Physical Laboratory (NPL), have been awarded more than £500,000 from the British Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in the 2nd round of the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund.

Communities and Local Government Minister Eric Pickles gave the House of Commons an update yesterday on how the Government’s flood response and recovery work is progressing.

Anglian Water plans to install around 11,000 new water meters in a £450,000 programme in towns and villages around Ipswich in the coming months.

Anglian Water will put its plans for a new £9 million 31km underground pipeline on display in Bardwell later this month.

Anglian Water is starting work this month on two schemes with a combined value of £1,250,000 to protect properties against sewer flooding in the face of changing weather patterns and heavy rainfall.

Thames Water is currently trialling new tablet technology which will be used by staff in the process side of its clean and wastewater treatment operations.

Atlantis Resources Limited,a vertically integrated turbine supplier and project owner in the tidal power industry, has announced that it has raised approximately £12 million from its successful initial public offering via the placing of 12,765,957 new shares on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market.

Seventeen professional bodies, including the Chartered Institution for Water and Environmental Management, are calling on the Government to use their expertise to develop a long-term flood strategy for the UK as a matter of urgency.

The European Commission is taking Denmark to Court for a failure to present plans for managing its river basins.

A new briefing from the European Environment Agency (EEA) argues that the cumulative impact of human activity should be better managed to avoid irreversible damage to ecosystems.