27 Apr 2021
Announcing the winners of the first Innovation in Water Challenge Wednesday 21 April 2021 – Innovations that turn ammonia in wastewater into green energy and use artificial intelligence (AI) or unexploited telecoms cables to detect leaks in the water network are among the winners of Ofwat’s inaugural £2 million Innovation in Water Challenge (IWC). Eleven collaborative […]
27 Apr 2021
The EA ‘The Environment Agency and its partners are holding three targeted Rethinking Water Citizens’ Juries to discuss the important question: How do you connect with water in your local environment, and what needs to be changed in the future to benefit people and wildlife? This is about involving communities in decisions about the future […]
27 Apr 2021
EA New advice for farmers – Green crops & Cambridge Successful cover crops scheme expanded Cambridge and Affinity Water are pleased to announce that our novel cover crops scheme has been a success again this year. The joint initiative, launched last summer, captured 40 tonnes of nitrogen over 800 hectares which may otherwise have leached […]
27 Apr 2021
Via Defra Urban flood resilience issue published by The Royal Society The Royal Society have published an issue of philosophical transactions on urban flood resilience. This issue compiles a series of scientific articles demonstrating developments in: understanding the changing drivers of flooding flood modelling multifunctional infrastructure and their benefits social, community and economic interaction with […]
27 Apr 2021
Untreated waste regularly flows into waters across England and Wales. Is it time to radically rethink sewage – or do away with sewers altogether asks the Guardian. Raw sewage in British waters is more than simply the horror of swimming amid human waste but also about the health and environmental threats of microplastics, endocrine disruptors, phosphorus, antibiotic-resistant […]
27 Apr 2021
A comprehensive Natural England report on the impact of the nation’s landscape on carbon storage and sequestration, has found that peatlands and native woodlands are habitats which have the greatest capacity to store carbon, but that many others, including coastal and marine habitats such as saltmarsh and seagrass meadows have a significant role to play a […]
27 Apr 2021
Canadian researchers have found find that the population of bowhead whales which overwinters in the Amundsen Gulf and Eastern Beaufort Sea did not make the 6,000km round trip in 2018-2019. Click here. Bowheads are the only baleen whale endemic to the Arctic. They live near the polar ice edge for much of the year and […]
27 Apr 2021
Scottish-based developers of the world’s leading floating tidal turbine technology, Orbital Marine Power Ltd, successfully launched its 2MW tidal turbine, the Orbital O2, from the Port of Dundee on 22 April. It will now be towed to the Orkney Islands where it will undergo commissioning before being connected to the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) where […]
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