11 Nov 2015
Defra ‘Bathing water in the UK is improving. A total of 97% of England’s bathing waters passed the minimum tougher standard this year. In total, 63.6% of bathing waters meet the new Excellent standard. Our nation’s bathing waters have continually improved since 1990 when just 27% met strict water quality standards. As our bathing water […]
11 Nov 2015
London is at increasing risk of flooding from its sewers during heavy rainfall. Growing challenges, more people, more buildings and more rain – will mean that out sewers and drains will become increasingly overloaded. Starting now, London needs to deliver lots of new sustainable drainage measures to support its struggling sewers. The Mayor in partnership […]
11 Nov 2015
Defra ‘New figures show the benefits of the new state-of-the-art tunnel The new state-of-the-art Thames Tideway Tunnel is set to bring environmental benefits worth up to almost £13bn, the Environment Minister Rory Stewart has announced. New figures show the benefits of the tunnel, which include preventing millions of tonnes of sewage flowing into the river […]
11 Nov 2015
State of the Nation Scotland: Infrastructure 2015, focuses on the performance, resilience, capacity and condition of Scotland’s infrastructure networks. It also analyses the economic, social and environmental benefits of infrastructure. Through the report ICE Scotland seeks to improve the planning, delivery, operation and regulation of Scotland’s infrastructure. Scotland’s approach to delivering and maintaining infrastructure requires […]
11 Nov 2015
At present, only a limited number of non-household water customers across England and Wales can choose their retailer – but this will change significantly in April 2017. The Water Act 2014 will allow 1.2 million businesses and other non-household customers of providers wholly or mainly in England to choose their supplier of water and wastewater […]
09 Nov 2015
This report by Marine Space for NRW ‘Advice for adaptive environmental management & marine biodiversity enhancement for coastal lagoon development goes in to some detail on the likely success of measures to enhance the marine biodiversity of lagoons. As is often the case the lack of information is raised as are a number of unknowns […]
09 Nov 2015
09 Nov 2015
BBC ‘A floating offshore wind farm will be installed in the North Sea off the coast of Peterhead after the Scottish government gave it consent. Norwegian energy firm Statoil has been granted a licence for the pilot scheme of five turbines. They will be attached to the seabed by a three-point mooring spread and anchoring […]
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