Warship made from plastic waste invades Cornish coast – SAS Environmental charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) has unveiled a 30ft warship made entirely of plastic litter to highlight the growing threat of throwaway plastic in the seas. Built on a Cornish beach, the SAS Wasteland Warship highlights the charity’s latest study which found one in […]
Anglian Water has made financial history this week with the issue of the first ever utility sector Sterling (GBP) Green Bond – the £250 million Bond will finance a range of activities that support its ambitious Love Every Drop sustainability strategy. Operating in one of the driest, yet fastest growing and economically important regions of […]
Blogs – four “All politicians know – and often quote – the response from Harold Macmillan when asked what a prime minister most feared: ‘Events, dear boy, events‘.” The events of the floods and images of the 2007 changed flood management in UK unlike anything since 1953 and indeed gave that ‘rivers and coastal’ mind set a mighty shake […]
Policy Exchange argues leaving EU’s Common Agricultural Policy The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the EU’s largest and oldest policy, absorbing nearly 40 per cent of its budget. And, as even the most zealous Europhiles would admit, it is one of its most disastrous. Over the last 40 years, CAP has focused on the interests […]
Waterwise: Last month Waterwise set out an ambitious blueprint for a water-efficient UK in its Water Efficiency Strategy for the UK. Over coming months we will be pushing forward with the actions recommended in the strategy, working with others – including some of you. Read our blogs on how the strategy relates to: delivering water savings in […]
Eager beavers experts at recreating wildlife-rich wetlands, study reveals Four re-introduced beavers in Scotland engineered a network of dams, canals and ponds that left the landscape ‘unrecognisable’ from the original Research on Scottish beavers reveal how they re-engineer the river landscape; natural flood management Damian Carrington Guardian The extraordinary ability of beavers to engineer degraded […]
We are very pleased to announce the release of our new film “The Drip – a watery tale” – beautifully animated by Tim Britton of Forkbeard Fantasy – it’s only 5mins long and we’d love you to watch it … and if you love it too, please do help pump it along the water connected […]
Now Available Reconnecting People and Water: Public Engagement and Sustainable Urban Water Management By Liz Sharp Water management in industrialised western countries has long been seen as a technical process associated with pipes, drains and bureaucracies. This technical model of water management is now being questioned. This book examines the nature of contemporary water […]