A new report is warning that the Government risks significant increases in consumer water bills and missing its housebuilding targets unless it launches an Olympic-style national champion for reservoirs and hands new powers to regional Mayors.

Uisce Éireann has broken ground on a €26 million investment in two significant projects in Maynooth in the town’s water and wastewater infrastructure.

A new economic study is warning that water scarcity could cost the UK economy £25 billion over five years due to undelivered housing developments – a critical obstacle to meeting the government’s housing targets.

With the announcement of the results of the second market round, the Somerset Catchment Market has now reached a significant milestone with over £1 million secured for new nature projects that will deliver Phosphorus Mitigation in the Tone and Parrett Catchment in Somerset.

Attendees at a special meeting of Mid Ulster District Council have been told that the full scale of the wastewater capacity issues across Northern Ireland will realistically take at least 12 - 18 years, or two to three Price Control periods, to address.

Over 40 property developers and housing association members attended Welsh Water’s developer forum last week.

Three pilots in Devon, West Midlands and Northern Ireland will test how to identify and improve key data that helps inform decisions on whether land across the UK is used for housing, infrastructure or net zero.