Severn Trent is taking action to help reduce flooding in Hadnall following detailed investigations into the local sewer system.

Southern Water is nearing completion of a new concrete tank which can hold 600,000 litres of storm water –the tank will double the capacity of a Hampshire wastewater treatment works during intense rainfall.

Southern Water is still feeling the effects of heavy rainfall across the region this autumn – the water company is continuing to tackle the challenge of record rainfall and high groundwater levels this winter.

Severn Trent teams will start work in Ladybrook this week as part of the water company’s £76 million Mansfield Sustainable Flooding Resilience Project, the largest SuDS retrofit project of its kind in the UK.

A major £25 million redesign of one of Southern Water’s wastewater treatment works near Whitstable in Kent is set to reduce storm overflows in the area by up to 30 per cent.

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 new report setting out how Southern Water plans to reduce pollution in Swalecliffe and the surrounding area has been published by the water company’s Storm Overflows Task Force.

A Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) investigation has found that errors in the construction of a drainage system were the primary cause of a fatal train derailment at Carmont in Aberdeenshire last year.

Thames Water is providing £3.3 million in funding for 20 nature-based schemes to tackle flooding in London and the Thames Valley.

Somerset farm business Alvis Brothers Ltd, of Lye Cross Farm, Redhill, has been ordered to pay £37,184 for polluting a tributary of the Congresbury Yeo.