Up to £100K funding available to develop your eco-business idea The award-winning Centre for Global Eco-innovation (CGE) at Lancaster University is looking for innovative small and medium enterprises who have ambitions to develop an environmental service, product or process, but who don’t have the in-house research expertise to develop their idea. “Businesses have usually […]
Guardian: ‘Water companies have been hit by a series of record fines for major sewage leaks and other pollution incidents. Yorkshire Water was fined £1.1m for illegally discharging sewage that polluted the river Ouse near York, while Thames Water was fined £1m for repeated sewage leaks into the Grand Union canal. The financial penalties have […]
Ofwat: Our shared vision for the water sector in England and Wales is one where customers and wider society have trust and confidence in vital public water and wastewater services. Delivering this vision relies on everyone in the sector working together, listening to customers and tackling long-term challenges. We are making changes to the way […]
Insight from Environmental Professionals on the EU ‘The Society for the Environment was pleased to team up with the ENDS Report to explore the thinking of environmental professionals on membership of the European Union. The survey results of almost 1,000 practitioners revealed, perhaps unsurprisingly, that they believe the EU has been a force for progress on environmental […]
OK it’s a Ministerial photo opportunity to highlight a major European contribution …. Would the Brexiters fund this type of work? Defra: The MoorLIFE 2020 project – which received €12 million funding from the European Union – will restore and preserve areas of blanket bog developed over thousands of years which are internationally rare due […]
Senate committee passes water reuse bill The Environment and Public Works committee of the United States senate has passed new legislation to support water reuse and critical investment in water infrastructure. The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), passed on 28 April 2016, is the main vehicle for authorising water projects to be developed by the […]
Another useful day highlighting a worldwide problem which is a major issue in UK Rivers – I wonder what happened to the Government’s promised legislation? Environment Agency: More than 20,000km of England’s rivers have been opened up to improve fish migration over the last 4 years – the equivalent distance of London to Rio and […]
Greenpeace ‘Small scale fishermen in England are struggling to retain their livelihood, while multi-million pound companies buy up the majority of fishing right, according to a new investigation by Greenpeace. The investigation revealed that just three companies own nearly two-thirds of England’s fishing quota while some fishermen hoard quota on vessels which never cast a […]