Toby Harding, Technical Director at WSP and AMP8 Strategy lead, who chairs WSP’s Nature Based Solutions working group, takes a look at the wide-ranging benefits of using Nature Based Solutions (NbS) to address environmental challenges – including low capital and operational costs, along with reducing energy demand.

Two city centre reservoirs in Wales, which are currently undergoing major restoration work, have secured a financial boost to support the ecological resilience of the site and create a future hub for health and wellbeing in the capital.

Regulations for Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDs) for new property developments in Wales came into force yesterday.

Restoring more forests around Rio de Janeiro could save the city up to $79 million in water treatment costs, while dramatically reducing the amount of chemicals used to treat drinking water, a new study from the World Resources Institute has found.

Thames Water will partner with stakeholders and local authorities to fund £60 million of surface water management (SWM) schemes including green spaces, removing hard, impermeable surfaces such as concrete and asphalt in areas most at risk of flooding.

Irish Water has lodged planning applications for eight innovative and environmentally friendly reed beds, representing a €900,000 investment across Carlow.

Andrew Johnstone, CEO of specialist Wiltshire-headquartered landscape consultancy Johnstone Landscapes Ltd, discusses the growing uptake of green infrastructure projects both in commercial and domestic environments.

Increasing numbers of cities worldwide risk reaching Day Zero, with taps running dry, and exacerbating the effects of climate change, unless they start actively managing and improving the resilience of their entire water basins, warns a new report by global engineering consultancy Arup.

A new partnership which includes the world's leading financial institutions with the aim of accelerating the issue of green bonds and crowding in additional climate finance has been launched at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco this week.

The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has criticised the Government for its lack of ambition on water efficiency targets and failure to make SuDS compulsory in all new builds.