09 Nov 2022
More floods expected during ongoing drought Reported on the BBC and in the Guardian Weather patterns may lead to flooding in February, Met Office warns Global weather patterns may lead to severe flooding in February despite England remaining in drought, the Met Office has said. Two-thirds of people at risk of flooding were unaware of […]
09 Nov 2022
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey says party would abolish Ofwat Reported in The Times Water companies are routinely able to dump sewage in rivers in England and Wales because the regulator is “pointless” and lacks real teeth, the leader of the Liberal Democrats has said. Sir Ed Davey said Ofwat should be replaced with a […]
09 Nov 2022
From Water UK The Discover Water website has been updated with the latest water industry performance data published by water companies for the year 2021/22. Discover Water allows the public to easily examine measures such as the quality of drinking water or customer satisfaction levels, using data compiled from across the whole of the water industry. This […]
09 Nov 2022
New Civil Engineer The highways industry is facing a critical knowledge gap regarding the installation and maintenance of drainage infrastructure according to a leading water management firm. ACO Water Management has surveyed 100 infrastructure and highways engineers and compiled the responses in its new report Highways Drainage: The Route to Surface Water Management, which is also […]
09 Nov 2022
Kotchakorn Voraakhom: The architect helping sinking cities fight flooding From CNN When floods devastated Bangkok more than a decade ago, Thai landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom became determined to help her sinking hometown fight this deadly climate threat. The floods “changed my life,” said Voraakhom, who studied at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. “(It was) […]
08 Nov 2022
The World Coastal Forum was officially launched at the COP14 Ramsar meeting in Geneva today (8th November, 2022). An International Advisory Meeting on the World Coastal Forum held on Jan 10, 2022 in Yancheng City, China with global online participation of government agencies, conventions, international NGOs and experts, agreed to establish a “World Coastal Forum (WCF)”. […]
08 Nov 2022
The mysterious Greenland shark – thought to have the longest lifespan of any vertebrate – has been granted new, historic protections by the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO). The US and Canada, with support from the UK and the EU, proposed and secured a science-based ban on retaining the species from international waters. […]
08 Nov 2022
The Marine Conservation Society has released its first Wildlife Sightings report, publishing last year’s findings from its long-running citizen science project. The project asks the public to report jellyfish and marine turtle sightings in and around the UK and Ireland’s shores. The charity collects and analyses reports of these species to identify […]
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