The year 2023 marked the driest year for global rivers in over three decades, according to a new report coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which signaled critical changes in water availability in an era of growing demand.

The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) is calling for a critical plan designed to protect and improve Northern Ireland’s waters needs to be strengthened and implemented without further delay, in a new report released today.

According to a new report by Dam Removal Europe, the European dam removal movement achieved another record-breaking year. A remarkable 487 barriers were removed in 15 European countries in 2023 – a 50% increase on last year’s record number.

Northumbrian Water is progressing further work on the North East Catchments Hub in partnership with The Rivers Trust.

CIWEM has been awarded a grant from the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund to illustrate the scale, nature and impact caused by pollution from roads entering rivers and offer potential solutions.

The Rivers Trust, Action for the River Kennet (ARK) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are collaborating to create two new wetlands across North Wessex Downs Area of Natural Beauty and planted 11,000 native plants at two newly created wetlands in Fyfield and Wilton in Wiltshire.

Severn Trent has been crowned as Biodiversity Champion at the 2022 Responsible Business Awards for its £1.2 billion Great Big Nature Boost (GBNB) project, one of the biggest nature projects across the UK.

Thames21 has launched its Five Year Plan (2023-2028) with a call for more collaborative action to get the River Thames and its tributaries ‘climate-ready’ to tackle the impacts of floods and droughts.

The Environment Agency and Northumberland Rivers Trust have relocated hundreds of native crayfish from the abundant populations found in the River Wansbeck in Morpeth, one of the last remaining strongholds for the white-clawed crayfish, to six refuge sites in North Northumberland.

A joint prosecution by Natural England and the Environment Agency for damages to the River Lugg has progressed following guilty pleas by the defendant.