Southern Water is progressing its work on SuDS in Schools, a joint initiative with Department of Education, with the installation of a swale for sustainable drainage to help manage more than 300,000 litres of rainwater at a Hampshire school.
The London Borough of Enfield has gone out to tender with a contract for engineering and construction works of a major landscaping scheme worth an estimated £40 million.
The Environment Agency has started work on an innovative £1 million natural flood management pilot project in Swaton, Lincolnshire.
UK water companies are invited to join an upcoming webinar which will explore how the sector can take indirect potable reuse (IPR) from concept to full-scale operational reality.
James Sumsion, CEO of predictive water intelligence specialists Kohtari, says the water sector needs to take a giant leap forward, so that it can anticipate and act upon water quality issues - rather than merely react.
Ray Moulds, Sales Director at Flood Control International, takes a look at how automated sliding floodgates are supporting secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites.
With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, then environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”