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14 May 2026

NewsWater

Image description: engineer wearing high-vis inspecting water quality at a wastewater treatment plant.    Scottish Water has confirmed the partner companies which will work with it to transform the country’s water and waste water infrastructure in the publicly-owned utility’s biggest programme of investment ever. Scottish Water says that the seven companies it will collaborate with on the joint enterprise – aimed at enhancing Scotland’s water and waste […]

14 May 2026

NewsWater

Image description: Close-up of wastewater treatment. Image credit: Pixabay.   A significant local commitment  Southern Water has announced a £42m programme of infrastructure works targeting sewage spills, storm overflows and pollution incidents across Folkestone and Hythe in Kent. The investment, unveiled at a public event in Folkestone this past week, will focus on wastewater treatment […]

14 May 2026

NewsWater

Image description: A dandelion amongst drought-stricken grass. Image by Myriams-Fotos from Pixabay   A strikingly dry spring in the south and east Reporting on the latest UK hydrological survey, the Guardian highlights that one of the driest Aprils on record for central and southern England has left river levels below normal, raising fears of drought in some […]

14 May 2026

NewsWater

  Image description: Water droplet falling from a tap. Image credit, Pixabay.   A sector losing the confidence of its customers Two reports published in the last week by the Consumer Council for Water (CCW) together paint a troubling picture of a sector haemorrhaging public trust. The watchdog’s annual Water Matters survey, which has tracked […]

14 May 2026

NewsWater

Image description: The Royal Coronation Crown Isolated on a Black Background   The UK Government has confirmed plans to introduce a new Clean Water Bill as part of the legislative programme outlined during the King’s Speech, signalling what ministers describe as a major overhaul of water regulation, environmental protection and infrastructure investment across the UK […]

12 May 2026

MarineNews

Photo by Paul Einerhand   A Dutch court has ruled that bottom trawling in the Dogger Bank without permits is unlawful, in what is believed to be the first European judgment confirming that governments have a binding legal duty to regulate the impact of bottom trawling on offshore marine protected areas. The District Court of […]

12 May 2026

MarineNews

Photo by Jakob Owens   Scientists have published some of the strongest direct observational evidence to date that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the vast system of ocean currents that regulates climate across Europe and the North Atlantic, has been weakening for nearly two decades, with new modelling suggesting the slowdown could be far more […]

12 May 2026

MarineNews

Photo by Phill Brown   A team of 26 scientists drawn from eleven government bodies is currently mapping the seabed off Britain’s south-west coast in what has been described as the most ambitious collaborative survey of its kind ever undertaken in the UK. The four-week mission, designated CSM2026, is being carried out aboard the research vessel Cefas Endeavour […]