Clare Dixon, Associate Reporter with Waterbriefing, takes an in-depth look at the issues explored at the second FT water summit ‘Unleashing Returns from Water Investments’ organised by the Financial Times newspaper in association with WWF which took place in London this week.

Shops and businesses around London have joined a Thames Water scheme that offers people free tap water ‘refills’ as part of the Mayor of London’s plans to reduce single-use plastic bottles in the capital.

A new report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)  is warning that the combined effect of increasing demand for non-agricultural uses, and depletion of aquifer stocks for irrigation, will have serious implications for water security in many regions and countries.

MPs have overwhelmingly rejected a bid to suspend fracking for shale gas during a debate on Government’s Infrastructure Bill for its report stage and third reading in the House of Commons yesterday.