The economist Dan Corry has been appointed to carry out an internal review into the regulation and regulators at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra).

London’s super sewer, designed to protect the River Thames from sewage pollution well into the future, has now been turned on.

Thousands of jobs in green industries have been announced as the UK Government welcomes more than £24 billion of private investment for pioneering energy projects ahead of the International Investment Summit on 14th October.

Uisce Éireann has launched an eight-week public consultation on a long-term plan to ensure the adequate provision of wastewater services for Galway City and parts of Galway County.

Global investors have warned the Government over the prospects of attracting major infrastructure investment in the UK’s regulated utilities sectors in the light of Thames Water’s ongoing financial crisis, according to a front page report in the Business& Money section of yesterday’s Sunday Times.

Scottish Water has reached a major milestone in its £60 million investment to upgrade Invercannie Water Treatment Works (WTW) in Aberdeenshire - the WTW was originally constructed more than 150 years ago.

The Institution of Civil Engineers has published an interesting policy paper on learning lessons from the cancellation of HS2’s northern leg.

Ground has officially been broken on the UK’s first new reservoir to be constructed in over 30 years. Once complete, Havant Thicket Reservoir will hold up to 8.7 billion litres of water.

Essential works on Uisce Éireann’s €114 million Athlone Main Drainage Scheme have now tunnelled past the halfway mark, with 1.6km of the 2.8km underground sewer pipes installed - some of which are large enough for a person to walk through.

Thames Water has appointed Jacobs and Mott MacDonald (Jacobs Mott MacDonald joint venture) as its Technical Partner to lead development proposals for vital new infrastructure to tackle the risk of drought in London.