A new interactive mapping tool created by the US Geological Survey provides predicted concentrations for 108 pesticides in streams and rivers and identifies which are most likely to exceed water-quality guidelines for human health or aquatic life.

Innovate UK, the government's innovation agency, together with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) are seeking to stimulate exploitation of the high-performance material graphene by investing £2.5 million in feasibility studies.

Yorkshire Water’s trial works to improve the quality of the river environment downstream of Swinsty reservoir is now well underway thanks to the help of a 'Spider' machine.

Landscape intelligence company Rezatec has been working with Northern Ireland Water to undertake an innovative study of its Dungonnell catchment, on the Garron Plateau, to the North of Belfast, using Earth Observation (EO) techniques.

Singapore’s national water agency Public Utilities Board (PUB) is building a demonstration-scale Integrated Validation Plant to test the technologies that could potentially be implemented at the future Tuas Water Reclamation Plant (WRP).

Dried sewage sludge could be an alternative cement material for concrete, researchers in Malaysia have found.

The UK is hosting a pavilion at European Utility Week 2015 taking place in Vienna from 3 to 5 November.