03 Apr 2024
The management of environmental water quality and the impact of agriculture and effluent discharges has been a subject of intense debate in recent times. The Worshipful Company of Water Conservators (WCWC) has responded by organising a programme focusing on the ‘wisdom of water’ in which there is a series of debates, webinars, and think pieces […]
27 Mar 2024
Heavy rainfall in the autumn and winter is thought to be behind the huge increase in raw sewage discharges just announced by the Environment Agency. Latest figures show more than 4m hours of discharges were poured into rivers and seas last year, a 129% increase on the previous 12 months. Total discharges from the 14,000 […]
26 Mar 2024
WMO report shows every climate indicator broken The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) “State of the Global Climate 2023” report confirms that last year broke every single climate indicator to be, by far, the warmest year on record. The report finds that, in 2023, concentrations of greenhouse gases continued to rise; ocean heat content and sea […]
26 Mar 2024
Water UK has published details of the English water companies’ updated strategy to cut storm overflow spills between 2025 and 2050. The National Storm Overflows Plan provides a national overview of company proposals, and an interactive map detailing the action planned for each individual overflow. Phase one runs between 2025 and 2030 and will triple […]
26 Mar 2024
The Environment Agency has published a review of England’s revised draft regional and water resources management plans, to identify whether the plans proposed by water companies will secure resilient and sustainable water supplies up to 2050. The Agency found nearly 5bn litres per day, which is more than a third of the 14bn litres of […]
26 Mar 2024
Flooding is the number one natural hazard in the UK, costing billions of pounds each year. The risk and damages to the UK from flooding is only expected to increase due to Climate Change. Natural Flood Management (NFM) is a critical mechanism to help reduce the risk of flooding, while delivering environmental benefits such as carbon sequestration, […]
26 Mar 2024
The Guardian reports that new EU rules which introduce “polluter pays” principles to get pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies to pay for the pollution they cause in rivers will not be adopted by the government in England, as campaigners say the country is falling behind. Lawmakers in Europe have signed off on an update to the urban waste […]
26 Mar 2024
Interesting and topical piece from the FT Londoners concerned with how to improve their water supplies should look to the developing world city of Phnom Penh. Back in 1993, 72 per cent of treated water in the Cambodian capital was lost by leaky pipes. Twelve years later, the leakage rate had fallen to 8 per […]
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