21 May 2026
Image description: Someone cleaning their hands using a wet wipe, with rolling fields in the background. Image by Ekaterina Ershova from Pixabay. A landmark ban is approaching – but many don’t know it With England’s ban on plastic-containing wet wipes due to come into force on 19 May 2027, the water sector is stepping up calls for […]
21 May 2026
Image description: A hand holding a pen marking a page with three columns of cartoon faces and checkboxes. The first column is a green smily face, the second a yellow neutral face and the third a red sad face. Image by Nasim Nadjafi from Pixabay A new baseline for how companies manage their infrastructure Water companies […]
21 May 2026
Image description: Fungi growing on a tree stump with a waterfall in the background. Image by Christoph Schütz from Pixabay The winners of the sixth Water Breakthrough Challenge have been announced, with 19 pioneering projects set to receive a share of £58 million from Ofwat’s Water Innovation Fund. The Challenge seeks to transform how the water […]
21 May 2026
Image description: A green wooden barrel storing rainwater, surrounded by grass. Image credit Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay. England faces a critical water security crisis unless the government fundamentally transforms how it stores, manages, and reuses water resources. A newly published cross-party report from the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee warns that […]
18 May 2026
Photo by Peter Kostov Speaking at the State Opening of Parliament on 13 May, King Charles III confirmed a sweeping legislative programme for 2026–27, anchored by an Energy Independence Bill and a Clean Water Bill. For marine professionals, the speech contained both significant opportunity and pointed omissions. “My Ministers believe that energy independence must be a […]
18 May 2026
Photo by Jacqueline Heron Wray A new study of Scotland’s South Arran Marine Protected Area has found that nearly a decade of protection from bottom trawling and dredging has produced striking ecological recovery, with highly protected seabeds recording around three times the abundance of marine life and twice as many species compared with nearby […]
18 May 2026
Photo by Marian Florinel Condruz Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has granted development consent to three major offshore wind farms on the same day as the King’s Speech, adding up to 4GW of new North Sea generating capacity, equivalent to a quarter of the UK’s entire current offshore wind fleet. The decisions, announced on 13 […]
18 May 2026
Photo by Vivek Doshi Forecasters are sounding the alarm over the possible development of one of the strongest El Niño events in recorded history, with ocean temperatures already at near-record levels and rapidly evolving Pacific conditions pointing toward a potentially catastrophic event by late 2026. The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service has recorded extrapolar […]
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