Nearly 12 months on since unprecedented rainfall led to widespread flooding in England and parts of Wales, the Environment Agency has completed 34 flood defences to increase protection to more than 30,000 homes and signed up 73,000 more people to its free flood warning service.

Almost one year on from the floods of Summer 2007, the Environment Agency is inviting people to comment on plans for flood management across the entire River Severn catchment, including many of its tributaries.

Hundreds of trout have died in a major pollution incident on the Pill River in West Somerset.

Future investment in water supply and sewage treatment were among the topics for discussion when the Environment Agency Board met in Huddersfield yesterday

Allocating the increased funding for flood risk management was among the topics for discussion yesterday when the Environment Agency Board met in Bristol .

The Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) has published the results of a research study to assess levels of NDMA (N-nitrosodimethylamine) in drinking water in England and Wales.

Details of how the proposed Floods and Water Bill would ensure the country is better prepared to deal with surface water flooding in the future, will today be outlined by Environment Minister Phil Woolas.

The Government’s blueprint for tackling climate change was published yesterday.

The draft Climate Change Bill shows the Government is learning some lessons from the failure to meet its 2010 carbon dioxide reduction targets, the Environmental Audit Select Committee concludes in its Seventh Report - but also comments that that the Government's policy towards the UK's 2050 target is clearly incoherent.

Aquavitae, one of the companies trying to break into the water supply market, has complained to the Office of Fair Trading about the price Anglian Water wants to charge for access to its supply network, claiming that Anglian's prices would squeeze its margins and make it impossible for Aquavitae to make a profit.