06 Feb 2025
The Environment has published new national risk information for flooding and coastal erosion. This includes future scenarios accounting for climate change. Photo credit: Ray Bilcliff It includes new National Flood Risk Assessment (NaFRA) ‘Risk of flooding from rivers and sea’ and ‘Risk of flooding from surface water’ data, as well as new National Coastal […]
06 Feb 2025
The Environment Agency has published new report on water temperature projections for England’s rivers. According to the report, the average water temperature of the warmest summer month is projected to rise by about 0.6°C each decade. The projections indicate that adult brown trout will be under threat from high summer water temperatures at almost all […]
22 Jan 2025
The Environment Agency Chief Regulator, Dr Jo Nettleton, has called for the environmental regulation framework to be reformed in order to help better protect people and the environment and enable businesses to grow. The Chief Regulator’s newly-created role is to hold the Environment Agency to account in delivering its regulatory activities and to champion best […]
16 Jan 2025
The UK Water Report says the Environment Agency (EA) has found catchment nutrient balancing (CNB) to be “ineffective and unworkable as a regulatory mechanism”. Ahead of Christmas, it told water companies it was minded to withdraw CNB permitting as a regulatory mechanism for wastewater treatment works discharges – from the start of AMP8. CNB allows water […]
08 Jan 2025
The Environment Agency is continuing to urge people to remain vigilant following the recent flooding, as flood warnings are still in place and a mixture of already saturated catchments and melting snow could risk some further disruption in parts of England on Thursday and Friday. Ongoing minor river flooding impacts are expected along the River […]
19 Dec 2024
The Environment Agency has published an update of the National assessment of flood and coastal erosion risk in England. Photo credit: Environment Agency This assessment provides a picture of current and future flood and coastal erosion risk across England. It suggests that the total number of properties in areas at risk of flooding from […]
19 Dec 2024
The Environment Agency is seeking views on updates to the guideline that water companies in England must follow when they prepare and publish their drought plans by 2027. The Agency has updated the guideline to ensure that all technical information is up to date and lessons learnt from recent research and experience of drought has […]
27 Nov 2024
As the clean-up continues in areas hit by Storm Bert, forecasters, environment officials and politicians have been strongly criticised over the warnings issued before the storm and the fitness of flood defences to cope with increasingly common extreme weather (The Guardian). Photo credit: Ray Bilcliff The Environment Agency said that lessons learned from […]
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