The Climate Change Committee has published a separate briefing summarising how the water sector has been assessed in the CCC’s third UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) published today, and what types of action to adapt to climate change risks and opportunities would be beneficial in the next five years.

A major £501 million flood alleviation project has passed a key milestone – the Government has approved funding for the latest stage of the River Thames Scheme.

Public sector owned Scape Procure Ltd, the built environment specialist supplier of framework solutions, is starting a pre-procurement market engagement phase prior to going out to formal tender with a separate £750 million regional construction framework contract notice.

The Environment Agency has published the Fens flood risk management baseline report - the report is the outcome of phase 1 of flood risk management work which started 3 years ago, to develop a shared understanding of the flood risk challenges in the Great Ouse Fens of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.

South West Water has welcomed the key draft decision on its Green Recovery Initiative by the regulator Ofwat.

Severn Trent has welcomed Ofwat's announcement this morning that it has received regulatory endorsement to invest £565 million (2017/18 prices) in an ambitious Green Recovery programme to support the UK's green economic bounceback and create 2,500 new jobs in the Midlands.

Analysing a range of scenarios for how the use of public transport, broadband networks and utilities might change as a result of Covid-19 and regularly reviewing which trends seem to be playing out is the best way of avoiding policy paralysis in the face of huge uncertainties, according to the National Infrastructure Commission.

The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has confirmed that the UK’s second National Infrastructure Assessment will be published in the second half of 2023 and consultation and analysis to inform its recommendations will commence this autumn.

Three of the seven awards made at the Institution of Civil Engineers' annual Robert Stephenson awards this week which celebrate the top civil engineering projects from across the North East were for flood protection schemes.

Dŵr Cymru Cyfyngedig (Welsh Water) has taken the next step in the process of using Ofwat’s Direct Procurement for Customers to deliver a £100 million-plus construction scheme to provide long-term water supply resilience to Cardiff, Newport and several smaller towns located within the Merthyr Valley.