A Hertfordshire farmer has helped give a precious chalk stream its natural ‘wiggle’ back, giving up more of his land to make space for 300 metres of new River Rib channel as part of an ambitious restoration project.

The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee will hear from a number of witnesses today in a non-inquiry live evidence session at 2.30pm to examine the natural and environmental benefits and impacts of peatlands.

On World Wetlands Day, Biomatrix Water is marking the delivery of 10,368 floating wetland modules across 245 projects in more than 20 countries.

Dwr Cymru Welsh Water has officially opened its pioneering £13 million reedbed and wetland storm overflow at Pont-y-felin in Torfaen – the first project of its kind in the UK.

Councillors from Kirklees Council and Denby Dale Parish Council recently visited Yorkshire Water’s Clayton West wastewater treatment site in West Yorkshire to see progress on a £14 million nature-based wetland solution.

A new report by the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the Global Wetland Outlook 2025: Valuing, conserving, restoring and financing wetlands (GWO 2025), warns that without urgent action, one fifth of the world’s remaining wetlands could vanish by 2050.

Yorkshire Water is set to construct a new wetland south of its existing wastewater treatment works in Bellerby, North Yorkshire, after planning was approved by North Yorkshire Council.

Bristol Water is trialliing floating wetlands to help improve water quality at its reservoirs.

A £282,000 project involving the Environment Agency, Norfolk Rivers Trust and Water Resources East to create floodplain wetlands along a section of the River Yare has been completed.

The pioneering Biohub research and development demonstrator farm in Yorkshire is undergoing a further transformation with the creation of seven new wetlands funded by Farming in Protected Landscapes through Nidderdale National Landscape.