The Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership is today launching a Water Management Plan in the House of Commons setting out its strategy for water management, including flood reduction and water supply, up till 2040.

Ofwat is moving ahead with its work to establish a competitive market for water resources set out in proposals in its May paper Water 2020: Our regulatory approach for water and wastewater services in England and Wales.

A new report from the Government’s independent Adviser on climate change is warning that flooding is the greatest direct climate change-related risk to UK infrastructure, while severe water supply deficits are set to deepen and extend across the UK by the 2050s.

Ofwat has launched a new consultation on proposed changes to the reporting requirements for the Annual Performance Report s produced by the water companies for the 2016-17 reporting year.

A review commissioned by Ofwat to help it understand whether sludge and water resource cost and revenue data is robust and comparable with the advent of possible competition in upstream services has flagged up inconsistencies and variations in data provided by the 10 water and sewerage companies.

The world’s rapidly dwindling freshwater resources could be further depleted if plans for hundreds of new coal power plants worldwide go ahead, threatening severe drought and competition, according to a new Greenpeace International report.

The latest official statistics on the water situation report for England show that in February rainfall totals were above average for the fourth consecutive month at 130% of the long term average.

The World Economic Forum, meeting in Davos Switzerland this week, has identified water as the number one global risk for business and society in the coming decade.

Moody's Investors Service is warning that Ofwat’s proposed changes in its approach to the upcoming PR19 Price Review  - Water 2020 - would, if implemented,  be "credit negative" for the water sector.

Half of the 60 largest economies face a serious risk of water shortages in the future unless climate policy changes, according to new research from the economics department of the ING global banking group.