16 Dec 2014
A wealth of information and headlines on the Ofwat website: http://www.ofwat.gov.uk/pricereview/pr14/finaldet Comment – Guardian: ‘Water bills to smash £400 a year barrier despite regulator taking action Ofwat moves to cut bills by 5% – but customers will not see this as they will still rise with inflation The average household water bills will rise to […]
10 Dec 2014
Speaking at a Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) event this morning, the regulator’s director of parliamentary and public affairs Nicci Russell said that by keeping the definition broad and open to interpretation it allows the water companies to meet their own relevant needs. She said that resilience has a “broad scope” and […]
01 Dec 2014
Dramatic climate changes and weather extremes already affecting millions of lives, but solutions exist. World Bank WASHINGTON, November 23, 2014 – ‘ the planet warms further, heat-waves and other weather extremes that today occur once in hundreds of years, if ever, would become the “new climate normal,” creating a world of increased risks and instability. […]
18 Nov 2014
By Sara Jerome@sarmje USA Water Online: ‘As new technologies promise to treat fracking wastewater to a point where it can be reused, there’s a new question: Is it clean enough to drink? Probably not, researchers say. Returning fracking wastewater to the environment “is just as risky as dumping any municipal treated wastewater back into rivers. […]
04 Nov 2014
Blueprint for Water: ‘Potentially environmentally-damaging dredging must not be prioritized over other proven flood-prevention measures in this year’s Autumn Statement on 3 December 2014 is the warning to Government by Blueprint for Water. In a new report Dredging up Trouble, 10 of the Blueprint for Water partners– a coalition of organisations, representing over two million […]
04 Nov 2014
Mike Young is known to many in the UK water sector from his visit several years ago where he clearly set out the challenges imposed by Australia’s experience of very severe droughts. He writes ‘I recently published an article on the Design of Water Abstraction Regimes. Variously described as water entitlement, water licensing, water right […]
21 Oct 2014
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11 Jul 2014
UK Water Research and Innovation Group Growing demand for water and the management of weather extremes are just a few of the complex challenges faced by cities. A holistic approach to water and cities is needed that integrates with other critical city issues, such as, transport, economy and health. A range of partners will need […]
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