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.
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has launched a new inquiry into Government resilience and how it addresses the impacts of extreme weather.
Dozens of flood warnings still remain in place around the UK and thousands of homes are still without power in Scotland in the wake of Storm Gerrit.
Water UK, the industry body representing water and wastewater companies, has launched a public consultation on building an ambitious, long-term Vision for the water sector in England.
In an joint letter to UK water companies, the Government, the Environment Agency, the Drinking Water Inspectorate, Ofwat and CCW have called on them to accelerate their existing AMP7 plans – and consider bringing future investment from 2025 and beyond forward.
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is inviting individuals to submit expressions of interest to attend a workshop on 14 November 2019 to input into a case for a potential significant capital investment in a world-leading integrated network of long-term catchment observing facilities in the UK.
The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has criticised the Government for its lack of ambition on water efficiency targets and failure to make SuDS compulsory in all new builds.
South West Water has hosted the first municipal trial of the Fournier Rotary Press in the UK, assessing its potential to improve sludge dewatering performance and support future biosolids standards.
Uniwater has acquired Hy-Ram Engineering, a specialist in tooling, products and hire for the water sector, based in Mansfield, England.
Enpure Ltd and Clean TeQ Water Ltd have announced a collaboration agreement to bring Clean TeQ Water's Moving Bed Ion Exchange-based nutrient removal technologies to water utilities across the UK.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.