03 Nov 2022
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the World Bank, have launched the report State of the world’s drinking water: An urgent call to action to accelerate progress on ensuring safe drinking water for all. The report is a comprehensive survey of what is known about the links between water, […]
03 Nov 2022
The Environment Agency’s ‘Regulating for people, the environment and growth, 2021’ report has been published and highlights the organisation’s approach to regulation and the work it is doing to ensure regulation meets their ambition to create better places. In the Foreword by the Chief Executive of the Agency, the stark message was that in 2021, […]
03 Nov 2022
The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has said it was considering enforcement action against Defra after it failed to meet the deadline to set statutory targets as part of the Environment Act. Utility Week reported that newly appointed secretary of state, Therese Coffey, said the department had struggled to analyse the 180,000 responses to a […]
03 Nov 2022
The largest conservation project to help restore wildlife on four important rivers in South Wales has been launched. The Natural Resources Wales (NRW) led ‘Four Rivers for LIFE’ Project will protect, enhance and help restore the Rivers Teifi, Tywi, Cleddau and Usk. An estimated 776km of river will be improved. (photo: Phil Dolby) […]
03 Nov 2022
Severn Trent has been crowned as Biodiversity Champion at the 2022 Responsible Business Awards for its £1.2 billion Great Big Nature Boost (GBNB) project, one of the biggest nature projects across the UK. The company announced its GBNB plans in September 2020, committing to improve biodiversity across the Midlands through the revival of […]
03 Nov 2022
A joint UK Parliament Committee has reported on the country’s critical national infrastructure and its preparedness for increasing storm events. The report says that the UK’s critical national infrastructure (CNI) is very vulnerable to extreme weather and other effects of climate change, such as sea level rises. Major power outages, landslides onto roads, buckling train […]
27 Oct 2022
United Utilities has started work on an £8.9 million project to improve the water quality of the River Douglas around Adlington in Lancashire, WaterBriefing reported. The North West water company will be constructing a 2,500 cubic metre detention tank to help reduce the number of the spills from storm overflows into the Douglas during periods […]
27 Oct 2022
A new project to create a new channel of the River Thames and restore long-lost wildlife habitat has been completed. The 450-metre watercourse in West Oxfordshire bypasses a manmade weir and will enable fish to swim along a 30km stretch of the Thames and spawn for the first time in more than a century. […]
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