Ben Piper, technical director at Atkins, explores how the UK water sector is putting plans in place to address growing levels of extreme weather events in the face of climate change and population growth.

South Staffs Water and Cambridge Water, which are both owned by South Staffordshire Plc, are inviting customers to have their say on how they think water resources should be managed in the future.

In an Expert Focus article for Waterbriefing, Mat Toy, client director at Atkins, discusses  how technology is helping to overcome the challenges of water scarcity in the (Middle East and North African (MENA) region.

Europe’s regions are facing rising sea levels and more extreme weather, such as more frequent and more intense heatwaves, flooding, droughts and storms due to climate change, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency.

The total reported economic losses caused by weather and climate-related extremes in the EEA member countries in the period 2010-2015 were around €66.5 billion, according to new figures released by the European Environment Agency.

The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID)  is scaling up its efforts to build resilience to natural disasters and climate change in Nepal via DFID’s Nepal Resilience Portfolio - DFID has gone out to tender with contracts for two major new programmes worth an estimated £7 million.

Water resources and flooding are among a number of key issues highlighted in the National Needs Assessment (NNA) of UK infrastructure which is being launched today at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). 

On 10 October 2016 in Brisbane, Australia, 200 leaders from the public and private sector, including government ministers, business and civil society leaders, and leading scientists will take part in a historic Summit on water scarcity and drought.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), World Resources Institute (WRI), U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and a network of partners have launched the Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness (PREP) to help communities, companies and investors use data to improve climate resilience planning.

The UK is facing a significant and growing risk of severe drought impacts, according to the first study to look at the long-term resilience of public water supply published by Water UK, which represents all the UK water companies.