Thanks to Bruce Horton for this article. ‘AquaMark is the largest and most ambitious water benchmarking project to have ever been undertaken in Britain.The ground breaking scheme will deliver over 500 different building benchmark classifications for water and greatly assist participating organisations in meeting many of their sustainability, corporate social responsibility and financial objectives. Putting […]
The Soil Association is calling for a UK ban on the use of Glyphosate sprayed on UK wheat as a pre-harvest weed killer and its use to kill the crop to ripen it faster. New figures analysed by the Soil Association from government data were released at a scientific briefing in London on 15 July […]
Thanks to Bob Harris This report looks at the use of ecosystem services thinking when applied to regional water management issues on the same river shared by the Dutch and Germans. It looks at collaboration, stakeholder engagement, paid ecosystem services and the outcomes and trade-offs that would be necessary. Click Here to access the report. […]
NFU ‘Farmers have met with environment minister Rory Stewart today to explain how crucial a secure supply of water is for their fruit and vegetable businesses. A delegation of NFU members representing the field vegetable, soft and top fruit sectors were invited to Westminster by the minister to talk about the proposed changes to water […]
We’re delighted to launch BeST (Benefits of SuDS Tool, W045), a new, free Excel tool for use on PC. The tool and guidance has been developed to make assessing the benefits of SuDS easier, without the need for full scale economic inputs. BeST provides a structured approach to evaluating a wide range of benefits, often […]
Anne Dacey, Environment Agency: ‘Following the public consultation earlier this year on ‘Water for life and livelihoods: draft update to the river basin management plan’, the Environment Agency has now produced a summary response document, which can be downloaded here: https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/portal/ho/wfd/draft_plans/consult. We really value all the comments and feedback you have provided and I’d like […]
This is the Committee’s first report to the new Parliament and the first report under sections 36 and 59 of the Climate Change Act, covering both progress towards meeting carbon budgets and progress on adaptation to climate change. It includes the CCC’s first ever statutory assessment of the National Adaptation Programme http://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/reducing-emissions-and-preparing-for-climate-change-2015-progress-report-to-parliament/ Different editorials have lead on […]
This summary report provides an overview of pollution incidents that occurred in 2014 including: A breakdown by incident category – the summary is about the most important incidents A breakdown of air and water incidents The breakdown of incidents whether by regulated or unregulated operations Agriculture and the water industry were responsible for a large […]