15 Sep 2015

A new report from the UK Water Partnership, Droughts and Floods – towards a more holistic approach, has been published, together with an accompanying blog by the leading author Jim Wharfe at http://www.theukwaterpartnership.org/#portfolio-page/blog/1 The UK Water Partnership is now exploring how to take forward the recommendation for a more holistic environmental approach to flooding and drought […]

26 Aug 2015

Website text: It is perhaps no surprise given the high profile nature of the Californian drought that the US is taking up the challenge of water reuse in terms of specialist association. CH2M have won support for their work in this area not only for their technical developments but also their work in tackling the […]

12 Aug 2015

‘The Environment Agency (EA) is holding a consultation for the revised Water Company Drought Plan Guideline (see consultation site).  The water company drought plan guideline (WC DPG) sets out what water companies must and should include in their statutory drought management plans. These plans focus on the things that companies plan to do to maintain […]

04 Nov 2014

Mike Young is known to many in the UK water sector from his visit several years ago where he clearly set out the challenges imposed by Australia’s experience of very severe droughts. He writes ‘I recently published an article on the Design of Water Abstraction Regimes. Variously described as water entitlement, water licensing, water right […]