Northumbrian Water is working with Durham University and a company called Intelligent Gels, to help prevent tree roots from damaging the sewer network and increasing the risk of flooding and pollution.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is getting ready to publish an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems later today.

On-site sludge treatment technology is offering big food and drink manufacturing companies the opportunity to make major cost savings, improve environmental performance and achieve significant operational benefits – and all with a payback of less than two years.

Yorkshire Water has gone out to tender with a contract for a range of specialist technical services to support service delivery in maintaining key operational activities worth an estimated £10 million.

Global water tech firm Xylem says that new approaches are needed to create a step change improvement in water system performance as global water challenges intensify.

Southern Water's war on leaks is delivering a dramatic fall in the volume of water being lost - a new anti-leak taskforce has brought down the volume of water leaking from Southern Water's 14,000 km network of water pipes by 15 million litres a day since February.

The Environment Agency is investigating proposals to manage the risk of flooding in Calstock, Cornwall, from the River Tamar - the scheme is needed urgently.