The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee says that the government has dismissed the majority of the Committee’s recommendations in its report on the human cost of coastal erosion in the formal response from Defra.
The Environment Agency has published new guidance on building a business case for investment in multiple small sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) features over a wide area - known as the surface water investment model (SWIM) approach.
The Environment Agency has published natural flood management (NFM) heat maps to help identify potential project opportunities for the flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM) investment programme.
The Environment Agency has set out a full list of upcoming projects from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 under its £2.65 billion two year flood and coastal erosion risk management investment progranmme between April 2024 to March 2026.
Ofwat and the Environment Agency have written to the water companies calling on them to collaborate and work in partnership with others within and beyond the sector, reflecting the needs of the areas in which they operate.
The construction of four major coastal defence capital schemes on the Isle of Wight with a total potential cost of £54.7 million to reduce the risk of flooding and coastal erosion moves one step closer to completion after receiving £7 million of central government funding.
The Environment Agency has published details of an ongoing research and development project at Newlyn to investigate the use of eco-blocks as a potential material to be used in future flood and coastal erosion risk management schemes.
The Environment Agency has decided that increased costs and reduced benefits of the proposed Reading & Caversham Flood Alleviation Scheme mean it will not attract government funding and will therefore not be progressed further.

The Environment Agency has today launched its annual FCERM (Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management) Strategy Action Plan to help protect England from flooding and coastal erosion.
The Environment Agency (EA) is continuing work on two separate projects to update evidence on measuring the economic costs, resilience and coastal change related to flooding.
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.
Albion Water, the first NAV (New Appointment & Variation) to have been established in1999 and now under the ownership of SDS Water Group, has appointed Andy Holland as its new Director of Business Development.
UK water companies are invited to join an upcoming webinar which will explore how the sector can take indirect potable reuse (IPR) from concept to full-scale operational reality.