Councillors from Kirklees Council and Denby Dale Parish Council recently visited Yorkshire Water’s Clayton West wastewater treatment site in West Yorkshire to see progress on a £14 million nature-based wetland solution.

A new report by the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the Global Wetland Outlook 2025: Valuing, conserving, restoring and financing wetlands (GWO 2025), warns that without urgent action, one fifth of the world’s remaining wetlands could vanish by 2050.

Yorkshire Water is set to construct a new wetland south of its existing wastewater treatment works in Bellerby, North Yorkshire, after planning was approved by North Yorkshire Council.

Bristol Water is trialliing floating wetlands to help improve water quality at its reservoirs.

A £282,000 project involving the Environment Agency, Norfolk Rivers Trust and Water Resources East to create floodplain wetlands along a section of the River Yare has been completed.

The pioneering Biohub research and development demonstrator farm in Yorkshire is undergoing a further transformation with the creation of seven new wetlands funded by Farming in Protected Landscapes through Nidderdale National Landscape.

An ambitious project to create a variety of habitats in which a wide range of trees, plants and animals can thrive is taking shape next to Wessex Water’s Durleigh Reservoir to the west of the town over the coming months.

Yorkshire Water has begun work at its Thornton-le-Beans wastewater treatment site in a £4 million investment which will see the development of a new nature-based wetland solution to improve water quality in the river Wiske, a tributary of the river Swale.

Scottish Water is harnessing nature based solutions to help reduce flooding in communities during extreme rainfall caused by climate change on a range of pilot projects across Scotland.

Forty projects which will use natural processes such as planting trees and creating wetlands to reduce the risk of flooding are set to benefit from a £25 million government programme.