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.
Daniel Johns, Head of Adaptation at the Committee on Climate Change, outlines six key questions on flood defence which tomorrow’s Autumn Statement should answer.
The Government has set out details of more than 1,400 flood defence schemes to protect 300,000 homes as part of the updated National Infrastructure Plan published this morning.
The Environment Agency has said that flood defences in England are now ready for winter.
A £7 million flood scheme which will reduce the risk of flooding to some 300 homes and businesses in the Lower Swansea valley has been officially opened.
The Environment Agency has launched a new consultation on its proposals for the Climping flood risk strategy in East Sussex – funding is a key challenge which will make some works unaffordable.
The Crown Estate has completed the construction of a £325,000 flood defence wall at Hawkins Point, Sunk Island to protect the areas high grade agricultural land from flooding.
Anglian Water is to make a funding pot of more than £8 million available over five years for flood partnership projects across the East Anglian region as part of a five-point action plan detailing the steps it is taking in response to recent flooding in Southend.
The Environment Agency will start work next week on a £6.3 million scheme to improve flood defences on the River Humber at Albert Dock in Hull.
The Environment Agency is going ahead with its plans to develop a major scheme to reduce flood risk to the towns of Shoreham-by-sea and Lancing in West Sussex.
Enpure Ltd and Clean TeQ Water Ltd have announced a collaboration agreement to bring Clean TeQ Water's Moving Bed Ion Exchange-based nutrient removal technologies to water utilities across the UK.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.
ABB has launched AquaMaster+™, a digital platform for smart water network management, designed to help water utilities monitor, analyze and manage their water networks, preventing pipeline water losses and optimizing operations.
Craig Nienaber, Business Development Manager for Safe Access Solutions (SAS) at HUBER Technology, explores why the company is seeing a growing level of interest in its safe access solutions for critical infrastructure providers, including their application in wastewater treatment assets.