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.

A major cross-border project, aimed at improving water quality in Carlingford Lough and Lough Foyle through enhanced wastewater treatment, has been successfully completed with outputs exceeding targets set.

Yorkshire Water has committed to increasing transparency around storm overflow discharge data by moving to near real time reporting, as part of a range of measures designed to help people understand what is happening within their rivers and beaches.

United Utilities is offering farmers with unwanted, unlabelled or out-of-date chemicals in their sheds and stores the opportunity to get them safely disposed of free of charge and with no questions asked.

The Environment Agency has today launched a six month-long consultation on the future of the water environment and rivers in England.