The government is proposing to extend the ban on destructive bottom trawling in vulnerable areas of English seas - the fishing method involves dragging large nets along the sea floor.
The Government has adopted and published the North East, North West, South East and South West Marine Plans produced by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO).
The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has gone out to tender with a £40 million contract to increase the control, monitoring and surveillance of all sea fishing activity around the coast.
Albion Water, the first NAV (New Appointment & Variation) to have been established in1999 and now under the ownership of SDS Water Group, has appointed Andy Holland as its new Director of Business Development.
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.