United Utilities has been fined a total of £200,000 and additional costs of £54,000 at a sentencing hearing in Bolton Crown Court this week.

In a scheme which could save millions if replicated across Manchester, a team headed by Business in the Community (BITC) has built a rain garden and transformed a large area of parking and pathways at Moorlands Junior School in Sale to demonstrate the benefits of sustainable drainage.

A new UN report on the state of the world’s water is warning that 5 billion people could be facing water shortages by 2050 as a result of increased demand, pollution and climate change.

Bristol Water is planning to widen its catchment management approach to tackle agricultural pollution and extend it across the Cheddar Reservoir catchments.

NI Water and Irish Water are collaborating on a major €5.3m cross-border project to improve water quality in rivers and lakes in the Erne and Derg catchment areas.

Yorkshire Water has embarked on a projected £13.5 million scheme to improve the taste and appearance of tap water by ‘flush’ cleaning large sections of its 31,000 kilometre underground pipe network.

A research project into the impact of rainwater harvesting in India on groundwater quality led by Dr Alison Parker from Cranfield University and Dr Anupma Sharma from the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India is among a number of projects to be delivered within the UK-India Water Quality programme.

The Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Welsh Ministers have signed an Intergovernmental Protocol to protect water resources, water supply and water quality in England and Wales.

The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs has launched a new consultation on draft regulations to amend the Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2016 - Defra intends to lay the draft regulations to update the current public and private drinking water regulations in late 2017.

The prize winning project of this year’s Stockholm Junior Water Prize has developed a unique method to identify, quantify and control water contaminants with the potential to revolutionize the future of water quality worldwide.