As part of growing efforts to deliver greater water savings to business water users Thames Water has just shared a great open access online water benchmarking tool. The tool has been designed to provide a water use benchmark for hotels, hospitality, leisure, offices, retail, schools and university halls. Users input some basic details of their […]
“Our Rivers Our City” is a comprehensive re-assessment and appraisal of Manchester’s three main river valleys. This ten-year plan has been developed collaboratively, including work by Groundwork Trust to engage, involve, inform and survey those interested in the City’s River Valleys. Read more here and download the strategy.
On Friday 31 December 2021, a 12ft long native crayfish sculpture commissioned by Northumberland Rivers Trust was unveiled at Northumberland Zoo to celebrate the start of its captive breeding programme. The programme aims to breed and release the native species into Northumberland’s rivers and lakes. It builds on work to boost native numbers and prevent […]
Water UK’s recent report, 21st century rivers: ten actions for change, puts storm overflows in the context of the full range of reasons why rivers are falling short of good ecological health. It calls for a new cross sector National plan for rivers to systematically tackle them. 21st Century Rivers: From Recovery to Renewal Over much of the last 100 […]
Ofwat Chief tells public – we will hold water and wastewater companies to account if they have done wrong Ofwat Interim Chief Executive, David Black has written an open letter to water customers telling them that If the regulator finds that water and wastewater companies have done wrong, Ofwat will hold them to account. Setting out […]
Severn Trent Water fined £1.5 million for sewage discharges Environment Agency successfully prosecutes Severn Trent Water for sewage discharges. Severn Trent Water fined £1.5 million for illegal sewage discharges Approx 360,000 litres of sewage discharged into one brook Severn Trent Water Limited has been fined £1.5 million for sewage discharges from 4 sewage treatment works […]
Urgent call to put water efficiency at centre of climate crisis action An urgent call to action has been raised to get the country back on track reducing demand for water across England, not only to tackle the growing national water deficit (around four billion litres of water a day by 2050), but also to support […]
The Strategic Flood Risk Assessment Good Practice Guide has been published: Strategic flood risk assessment good practice guide | ADEPT (adeptnet.org.uk) The research reports, used to create the guide, were published on 25th November and can be accessed here: Using flood risk information in spatial planning – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The Strategic flood risk assessment good […]