Lifting a ban on fracking in Germany is unlikely to have any significant impact on the country's domestic gas production in the foreseeable future, according to Fitch Ratings.

The London Assembly has called for Thames Water to provide its Environment Committee with an assessment of its drainage network’s ability to deal with heavy rainfall events.

A new report for the Environment Agency by consultants, Atkins, which describes the development of a decision support tool to help screen rivers in England for the likelihood and extent of sediment-bound phosphorus being released back to the river water, says that more work is needed to understand the issue.

Only four weeks are left for stakeholders to comment on how water environments in the Humber river basin catchment will be looked after over the next five years.