Trials are continuing in Seaham, County Durham for Pipebot Patrol, a £1.8 million innovation project led by Northumbrian Water. A blockage-detecting robot is sending back its first signals from inside the sewer network, helping engineers to spot early build-ups before they cause flooding.

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 (EA) has awarded a Mapping and Modelling Framework to provide the scope of services required to develop and maintain data and evidence, enabling informed investment decisions at a range of spatial scales.

Anglian Water has created a real-time picture of sewer risk, which is helping drive proactive interventions to reduce sewer blockages, flooding and pollution incidents.

The Environment Agency has launched a new crowd reporter website to enable Severn Valley residents to share details of flooding in their communities.

SUEZ has announced the launch of MasterPlan, the latest product from technology partner Utilis Corp, a deployable pipe deficiency data layer, improving operational efficiencies for water utilities.

The Government’s Geospatial Commission has announced its ambition to bring together the existing data on underground pipes and cables to create an Underground Assets Register.

Leading supplier of aerial survey services and data Bluesky has revealed plans to update over 160,000 square kilometres of aerial photography, colour infrared imagery and 3D terrain mapping in 2018.

The latest addition to the Copernicus satellite Earth observation family will halve the time needed to provide precision land-use data to benefit farmers, builders, fishermen and anyone who needs rapid access to up-to-the-minute data on conditions on the ground.

Anglian Water has awarded an IT contract to put an infrastructure and application development framework in place worth an estimated £100 million.