Severn Trent has been trialling new drones technology which could help detect leaking pipes from hundreds of miles away.

Lincolnshire Resilience Forum (LRF) has gone live with new geospatial technology from Esri UK to help it better prepare for emergencies across the county, including flooding, loss of critical infrastructure, pandemics or severe weather.

A Severn Trent drones team is helping detect leaks earlier from the skies using the latest technology.

New research into how quantum sensing technology can benefit environmental sciences has been launched at the University of Birmingham.

A trial of drone technology sponsored by Southern Water is helping farmers target pesticides only where they are needed – cutting costs and protecting the environment.

Anglian Water is carrying out innovative drone surveys around Ardleigh reservoir, Colchester, to identify difficult to find leaks and fix them - this year’s drought has presented an opportunity to spot leaks in a new way.

Essex & Suffolk Water is using an lightweight drone to enhance safety inspections of some of its larger reservoirs, and to overcome the Covid-19 challenges around social distancing in confined space areas.

AmeyVTOL has successfully demonstrated the first drone inspection of UK infrastructure to go beyond visual line of sight (BVLoS).

Northumbrian Water has cut leakage from 137.05Mld (megalitres per day) in 2017/18 to 136.26Mld in 2018/19, according to the latest results released on Friday 26^th July in an update to the industry-wide Discover Water website.

The Environment Agency will be using drones for the first time this summer to gather information about illegal abstraction in East Anglia’s fenland areas.