The National Digital Twin programme, part of Centre for Digital Built Britain, wanted to create an interactive demonstrator tool to help show how connected digital twins can make energy, water and telecoms infrastructure more resilient to flooding due to climate change.

Volunteers from Severn Trent and the local community are joining forces next week to plant five Tiny Forests across Lichfield District as part of Severn Trent’s plan to create 72 Tiny Forests across the West Midlands region as part of their partnership with Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

An independent review which has been commissioned by Thames Water to examine the flash flooding that affected many parts of the capital in July 2021 has launched.

Anglian Water, BT and UK Power Networks have announced a first of its kind collaboration agreement with the National Digital Twin programme (NDTp) to work together on a Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo) which will be previewed at COP26 this November.

Water companies in England have today announced ambitious plans to plant 11 million trees, part of a wider commitment to improve the natural environment, to support their goal of achieving a carbon neutral water industry by 2030.

Sir James Bevan KCMG, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, has warned that surface water is the UK’s biggest flood risk and highlighted potentially dire consequences if action is not stepped up to tackle the issue.

The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has criticised the Government for its lack of ambition on water efficiency targets and failure to make SuDS compulsory in all new builds.

A landmark research study shows the impact of flooding, droughts and heatwaves by 2050-2100 will exceed previous predictions – and could put European cities “beyond breaking point”.

Stephen Bourne, Atlanta-based project director at Atkins, talks about a new tool which can help cities strengthen their resilience in the face of population growth and the growing impacts of climate change.

Ofwat is calling for the water companies to adopt a systems thinking mindset at all levels of their businesses as part of their resilience business planning for the upcoming 2020-25 AMP7 investment programme.