Southern Water has issued a statement clarifying its recent application for a Drought Order at the River Test following what it describes as “misleading media coverage”.

As climate change is exacerbates heat stress around the world, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) have created Thermal Trace, a fast and intuitive application to explore maps, charts and decades of data to monitor heat and cold stress globally and how this is changing over time.

Industrial process water and wastewater treatment specialists Evides Industriewater UK is warning that industry must prepare for tighter restrictions on water use in a new briefing paper released today.

Northumbrian Water is partnering in a £3.8 million project to reduce flood risk in a County Durham village. The work in South Moor, Stanley, will be carried out by Northumbrian Water, in partnership with Durham County Council and the Environment Agency (EA), as part of the Northumbria Integrated Drainage Partnership (NIDP).

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is warning that some rivers in the east of Scotland are once again approaching critical low flow levels, and a number of areas are around two weeks away from potential Significant Scarcity.