Essex & Suffolk Water has started work on the second phase of a £30 million investment to protect and enhance the water supply to more than 300,000 people across Essex.

The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has gone out to tender with a contract for soil sampling and analysis at 170 farms across the UK for an Environmental Baselining Pilot (including analysis to inform the risk of runoff) worth an estimated £2 million.

Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) Minister Andrew Muir has announced 20 actions his Department will take to improve water quality, address the challenges in Lough Neagh and tackle blue green algae (BGA).

The Environment Agency has launched a campaign to highlight the risks of growing high-risk crops, which can lead to pollution and flooding, in the South West of England.

CIWEM has been awarded a grant from the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund to illustrate the scale, nature and impact caused by pollution from roads entering rivers and offer potential solutions.

A small village in Lancashire is now part of the UK’s biggest hi-tech drainage community thanks to United Utilities.

Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey is expected to announce tougher penalties and fines on water companies this week which will be reinvested back into a new Water Restoration Fund, making polluters pay for damage they cause to the environment.

United Utilities, the North West’s water company, has awarded more than £1.3 million of funding to projects which will boost levels of sustainable drainage across Greater Manchester.

Southern Water has published a new report explaining why there are coastal storm releases in Margate and how working together can significantly reduce them.

The first installation of SDS Aqua-XchangeTM, the sustainable drainage innovation which turns roadside filter drains into treatment devices that protect the water environment from toxic metals pollution, has been successfully completed on a busy stretch of the M56 motorway.