Defra, Ofwat, the DWI and the Environment Agency are calling for greater collaboration between the the water companies, together with working with other sectors, to build resilient water supplies.

Water companies have seen their proposals for new sector guidance on sewerage asset adoption given the go-ahead from the water industry regulator.

Ofwat’s annual service delivery report for 2018-19 has found that there is a real gap between the best and worst performers in the sector, but that the industry as a whole has not kept up the progress made in earlier years and performance has stagnated.

International investors in the UK water companies led a delegation at a meeting with the Treasury last week to warn that Ofwat’s tough PR19 plans are “unfinanceable” and express their concerns that the regulator has become politicised, according to a report in yesterday’s Sunday Times newspaper

The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee is calling for a ‘citizens’ army’ to tackle the growing threat from invasive species, estimated to cost Britain’s economy £1.8 billion a year.

The Environment Agency has today launched a six month-long consultation on the future of the water environment and rivers in England.