Severn Trent is offering free mobile water bowsers to livestock farmers across Staffordshire and Derbyshire, as part of a new initiative to help manage water demand.

United Utilities has completed a project in Leigh to improve biodiversity around its wastewater treatment works in the town by transforming non-operational land into valuable woodland habitat.

The Environment Agency has approved a drought permit application to help refill Carsington and Ogston reservoirs, Derbyshire - the permit enables Severn Trent Water to secure public water supplies, should below-average rainfall continue.

Environmental Standards Scotland (ESS) has written to Scottish Water and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) to welcome their commitment to work together to develop a new analytical tool to identify instances where storm overflows in Scotland may be spilling in dry weather.

The Government has announced confirmation of a second new national forest for the Ox-Cam corridor, and a competition will launch in early 2026 to determine the location of a third national forest in the Midlands or North of England.

The Department for Environment, Food And Rural Affairs has awarded a contract for a Peat Evidence Review with an estimated total value of £276,000 (inc VAT) to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) UK Peatland Programme which is hosted by The Wildlife Trusts.

The Environment Agency has gone out to tender with a contract for an organisation to act as Responsible Body for a Conservation Covenant with an estimated value of £96,000 (inc VAT).