Severn Trent Water’s £11 million investment to protect homes and businesses in South Leamington from sewer flooding will reach a crucial milestone at the end of this month.

Official figures from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado released yesterday have confirmed that the Arctic Sea Ice has reached its summer minimum and is again one of the lowest levels on record, falling to 5.10 million square kilometers (1.97 million square miles) on September 13, 2013.

A £28 million Environment Agency scheme to construct 7km of new sea defences inland from the coast together with a wildlife haven at Medmerry in West Sussex is now nearing completion.

Hydro International’s innovative First Defense® vortex separator is now available for the first time in the UK, in response to the growing need for economical surface water treatment on new developments, car parks and highways.

An innovative technique which extends the life of water pipes and removes the need to dig up the road is great news for people in Wetherby, where a new material has been used by Yorkshire Water for the first time ever on a live project in the world.

A new report by RenewableUK, the trade body for the UK wind and marine renewables sector, has highlighted a 74% increase in UK jobs in wind and marine energy since 2010 - together these growth industries now directly employ 18,465 people full time.

Mott Macdonald have won a £770K contract with Southend-on-Sea Borough Council to provide civil engineering consultancy services on a range of coastal flood defence and erosion protection projects.