A lack of scrutiny in an interview with climate sceptic Lord Lawson has led the BBC to admit it breached its “guidelines on accuracy and impartiality”. The sceptic ex-chancellor claimed in an interview with the Today programme that “official figures” showed average world temperatures had “slightly declined”. This view was shown to be false, but […]
Utility Week has reported that the Government’s affordable housing push has sparked a water efficiency inquiry. An expert group will investigate the sustainable resource management requirements for the government’s new housing ambitions. An inquiry into the strategic planning and provision of water resources over the coming decade has been launched as the government pledges £2 […]
The European Commission has launched an online public consultation as the first phase of the re-evaluation process for the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive – with a planned completion date of Q1 2019. The latest figures show that 95% of the EU’s urban waste water is collected and over 85% is treated according to the Directive’s […]
United Utilities has become the first water company to introduce a charging scheme for developers to encourage them not to connect new developments to the public sewer network. The company has told developers that from next April, development sites that do not connect surface water flows to the public sewer network will receive a discount […]
Survey of the current opportunities to improve management of the UK’s marine environment You are invited to participate in a short online survey which is seeking to gather information on what the marine community perceives to be the current opportunities to improve management of the UK’s marine environment. The survey should take only 5 – […]
Welsh Government has announced a further £1.2 million in funding to accelerate marine energy development in Wales. The investment is to develop a Marine Energy Test Area (META) project in the Milford Haven Waterway. The funding will support the work of Marine Energy Wales in developing a network of pre-consented areas of seabed that will […]
Cod, herring and haddock may vanish from Scotland’s west coast waters by the turn of the century because of global warming. Researchers at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), near Oban, have predicted that by 2100 commercially important species could migrate out from this ecosystem, most likely to colder waters further north, in response […]
In November 2016 we hosted a national conference that considered the beneficial use of dredged sediment for habitat restoration or creation. At that event it was highlighted that one of the several barriers to implementing such ‘recharge’ schemes is that they often incur extra costs when compared with standard practices for dredge material disposal. Furthermore, […]