The Rivers Trust has welcomed the prioritisation of the environment for the first time in Defra’s latest Strategic Policy Statement for Ofwat – but expressed concern that the SPS is not yet ambitious enough, and still lacks clarity.

Anglian Water has today unveiled a huge £680 million investment programme for the year ahead. The largest investment ever planned for a single year will be spent across the entire East of England, which is the driest and one of the fastest-growing parts of the country.

Councils and environmental organisations across South Yorkshire have launched an ambitious plan this week to reduce flood risk and tackle the climate emergency head on.

The government has today published the UK’s Third Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA3) – which warns that UK faces myriad risks which could cost many billions of pounds a year to tackle within a relatively short timescale by 2050.

The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has released its annual findings which show that globally 2021 was among the seven warmest on record.

The past year has seen the spotlight fall on the environment and the rapidly growing impact of climate change like never before. The water sector stands ready to meet the challenge, says Anglian Water CEO Peter Simpson, but not all the answers come from within.

The National Trust is warning that landscapes and wildlife across the UK are increasingly suffering the impacts of extreme weather events and natural disasters.

An independent review which has been commissioned by Thames Water to examine the flash flooding that affected many parts of the capital in July 2021 has launched.

Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier is retreating rapidly as a warming ocean slowly erases its ice from below, leading to faster flow, more fracturing, and a threat of collapse, according to an international team of scientists.

An urgent call to action has been raised to get the country back on track reducing demand for water across England, not only to tackle the growing national water deficit (around four billion litres of water a day by 2050), but also to support net zero ambitions.