Heathrow Airport’s consultation on its preferred expansion masterplan – known as the Design Consent Order Project - published this week includes details of potentially significant negative impacts on the surrounding floodplain, rivers and lakes.

A cutting edge bio-technology system is being tested by Highways England to improve water quality around a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Devon.

The Environmental Audit Committee has launched a new inquiry to consider the impact and threat to biosecurity from invasive species.

Innovative new floating islands have been installed as part of a £6 million flood reduction joint project between Northumbrian Water, North Tyneside Council and the Environment Agency to increase flood protection to more than 3,500 homes in Killingworth and Long Benton.

Black & Veatch has won a UK Landscape Institute Award for its work in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire on the Burton Washlands flood alleviation scheme.

The Environment Agency has started work on the first of five natural flood management schemes along rivers in Norfolk to help manage flood risk to local properties and improve habitats.

Following the successful opening of its first wetland treatment site earlier this year on the River Ingol in west Norfolk, Anglian Water has now unveiled proposals for dozens of further sites as part of its business plan from 2020.

Severn Trent Water has launched a new scheme called ‘Cash for Catchments’ which will provide funding to support water environment improvements.

In a scheme which could save millions if replicated across Manchester, a team headed by Business in the Community (BITC) has built a rain garden and transformed a large area of parking and pathways at Moorlands Junior School in Sale to demonstrate the benefits of sustainable drainage.

Irish Water has been granted planning permission to build an Integrated Constructed Wetland (ICW) to treat wastewater from the village of Saleen, Co. Cork.