2022 will be the warmest year on record for the UK, according to provisional figures from the UK Met Office – and the national weather forecaster is warning that 2023 will be one of the Earth’s hottest years on record.

The Environment Agency has just finished removing more than 200 tonnes of floating pennywort from the River Wey, near Byfleet Mill weir. Upstream of the weir, the entire water surface had become hidden beneath a six-foot deep, 70-metre-long carpet of the invasive weed.

North Ayrshire Council has awarded a contract to construct the Millport coastal flood protection scheme worth an estimated £35.61 million+ in total.

NI Water is looking for supply chain input for the supply, installation and maintenance of sewer inspection equipment.

Irish Water has applied for planning permission to maximise energy recovery at its Ringsend Wastewater Treatment Plant - the proposed expansion will increase the amount of on-site power generated by 20%.

Anglian Water was fined a total of £563,609.21and ordered to pay £27,439.21 in costs last week after a treatment plant failure in 2018 let millions of litres of sewage into a river killing invertebrate and fish across 3 kilometres.

NI Water has gone out to tender with a framework contract for the supply, delivery, maintenance and associated spare parts for MBR Panels worth an estimated £6.5 million.