Stream, a UK water open data initiative, has won an Esri ‘Special Achievement in GIS Award’ for its pioneering work in helping water companies to share their data with each other and various stakeholders, including innovators, citizens, regulators and interest groups.

Natural England is returning to the waters of the Fal and Helford rivers next week to carry out a new dive survey of the region’s kelp forests to check on their health and the area they cover.

Yorkshire Water has been fined £865,000, ordered to pay costs of £34,979.79 and a victim surcharge of £170 after a South Yorkshire water treatment works pumped out millions of litres of chlorinated water for almost a month.

Uisce Éireann has announced that its Water Services Strategic Plan 2050 (WSSP 2050) has been approved by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage James Browne TD and subsequently adopted by the Uisce Éireann Board.

Scottish Water has gone out to tender with a contract for supply and delivery of powder activated carbon for water treatment worth an estimated £7.1 million.

A partnership between Esh-Stantec and German-based sealing technology specialist Hauff-Technik are trialling advanced mechanical sealing systems - long used in the European power sector - on live Northumbrian Water projects.

United Utilities has awardedan AMP8 contract for the supply and delivery ofa single containerised sludge screening and declassification unit worth an estimated £558,000 (inc VAT).

Flood Re, the joint initiative between the Government and insurers which aims to make the flood cover part of household insurance policies more affordable, has gone out to tender with a contract for household surveying and analysis services worth an estimated £120,000 (inc VAT).