Southern Water is getting ready to start a £4 million scheme to improve water quality in Bognor Regis - the West Sussex coastal town is the latest location to benefit from ongoing work to cut storm overflows and improve the quality of bathing waters across the region.
Southern Water has completed a driveway upgrade scheme in an Isle of Wight village to replace paved surfaces for porous surfaces to protect homes and local drainage from deluges of surface water following heavy rain.
A new report co-authored by the Infrastructure Policy Advancement (IPA) thinktank, part of Bentley Systems, and Aqua Consultants, with support from British Water, is calling for mandatory sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS).
Severn Trent and Staffordshire County Council have made significant strides in tackling ongoing flooding issues in Eccleshall.
Southern Water is progressing work on £170 million investment in a storm overflow reduction scheme to improve water quality in Portsmouth Harbour.
The Environment Agency has today published a major update to national flood and coastal erosion risk assessment showing 6.3 million properties across England are in areas at risk of flooding from one or a combination of rivers, the sea and surface water.
Forty projects which will use natural processes such as planting trees and creating wetlands to reduce the risk of flooding are set to benefit from a £25 million government programme.
Yorkshire Water is improving the performance of two storm overflows in York that discharge into watercourses in the city during periods of prolonged or heavy rainfall.
A new online tool which highlights where the opportunities are to install nature-based solutions, such as wetlands, to tackle road runoff pollution before it ends up in London’s rivers has gone live today.
Wessex Water and partners are progressing work to tackle flooding in Chard - Chard residents are being urged to back a new phase of the drive to reduce historic local issues with flooding by joining a pilot project that could see more than 800 water butts handed out to homes in the Somerset town.
With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, then environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”
ERG, the leading supplier of odour control systems and industrial gas cleaning & thermal systems, has been awarded the coveted King’s Award for Enterprise.
Welsh Water’s new artificial intelligence-driven tool, ORAI, has been shortlisted for three categories at the prestigious British Data Awards 2026 – underscoring the company’s commitment to using cutting-edge technology to deliver better outcome for customers.
Barhale has completed work on two separate Rapid Action Taskforce Spills projects it is carrying out for Severn Trent.