Northumbrian Water is getting ready to work at Grassholme Reservoir in Teesdale, which will permanently reduce the reservoir capacity and the top water level and improve facilities for leisure visitors.

New analysis by construction industry analysts Barbour ABI shows that the total value of infrastructure contract awards in 2019 was £10.4 billion down by 10.3% on 2018 – and the second consecutive year of decline.

The Credit Suisse Research Institute (CSRI) has today published a comprehensive study on water scarcity and the key challenges that lie ahead, calling for definitive action to be taken on a coordinated global basis.

The Natural Capital Committee, the government’s independent advisor on natural capital, is warning that the government’s current environmental policies leave “vast holes in environmental protection” and “a gaping hole in legal enforcement.

NI Water Chairman Dr Len O’Hagan CBE has welcomed the ‘New Decade, New Approach’ deal agreed by the political parties in Northern Ireland to restore devolved government in Northern Ireland, exactly three years after the Assembly collapsed.

A £2 million fund to support farmers who suffered uninsurable damage to their property in the devastating floods in November has opened for applications this week.

The civil engineering sector led the fall in output in the construction sector last month, according to the latest data from the bellwether IHS Markit/CIPS UK Construction Total Activity Index.

O2, Ericsson and Northumbrian Water have conducted a series of initial 5G trials to harness the power of 5G connectivity to revolutionise the way the Durham-based company operates.

Severn Trent has gone out to tender with an AMP7 contract for waste infrastructure network services for itself and sister company Hafren Dyfrdwy Cyfyngedig worth an estimated £504 million in total.£500m-plus. 

A major new international survey has revealed that the satisfaction rating for Great Britain’s water and sewerage services is the second highest in the world.