Up to £150,000 in Harbour Conservation Grants are being handed out by Southern Water to protect and enhance the environments of Pagham, Chichester and Langstone Harbours.
United Utilities, the North West’s water company, has awarded more than £1.3 million of funding to projects which will boost levels of sustainable drainage across Greater Manchester.
An innovative project to implement an integrated water management system has been named a winner of Ofwat’s second Water Breakthrough Challenge.
CIRIA, the Construction Industry Research and Information Association, has appointed Stantec and the Rivers Trust in a partnership to develop high level guidance and principles for the asset management of Blue-Green Infrastructure.
The Government has asked the independent National Infrastructure Commission to investigate how the risks of surface water flooding can be better managed, following a spate of inland flooding incidents in recent months.
The Living with Water partnership, comprising Yorkshire Water, Environment Agency, Hull City Council, and the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, has awarded Stantec a contract to progress a sustainable approach to water management in Hull and East Riding.
Milton Keynes Council is intending to commission a 'City Wide Infrastructure Study' as part of a comprehensive suite of background evidence studies that can inform and support future policy making.
Water UK has published a pre-implementation version of the 8th edition of ‘Sewers for Adoption’ with the expectation that the document will come into effect in mid 2019 as part of the implementation of the Ofwat Code on Adoption Agreements.
A new report from the Government Office for Science is warning that the information needed to develop effective policies to ensure the future prosperity, sustainability and health of coastal communities is either inadequate or not available.
James Sumsion, CEO of predictive water intelligence specialists Kohtari, says the water sector needs to take a giant leap forward, so that it can anticipate and act upon water quality issues - rather than merely react.
Ray Moulds, Sales Director at Flood Control International, takes a look at how automated sliding floodgates are supporting secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites.
With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, then environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”
ERG, the leading supplier of odour control systems and industrial gas cleaning & thermal systems, has been awarded the coveted King’s Award for Enterprise.