The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) has launched a major new campaign calling for the creation of 100,000 hectares of healthy wetlands in the UK to help combat the climate, nature and wellbeing crisis.

Water UK and Waterwise are urging everyone to save water during the nationwide heatwave when water usage is likely to be higher than normal.

Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds more reported as a result of devastating floods which have hit Germany and neighbouring countries in the last 24 hours as a result of unprecedented levels of torrential rainfall.

United Utilities has become the first UK water firm to receive the global Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) stamp of approval the company’s ambitious science-based emissions targets.

The National Audit Office is warning that there are serious weaknesses in central government’s approach to working with local authorities on decarbonisation, stemming from a lack of clarity over local authorities’ overall roles, piecemeal funding, and diffuse accountabilities.

Anglian Water is making rapid progress with the installation of 1.1million new upgraded water meters for homes and businesses across the region as part of a five-year project investing more than £180 million.

Yorkshire Water has revealed its strategy to reach an ambitious carbon net zero target by 2030.

Lord Deben, Chair of the influential Climate Change Committee, the government’s independent adviser on clmate change, is urging the government to listen to a call by local leaders and Mayors from across the UK for a power shift from Whitehall to meet Net Zero.

Organisations across England have been awarded up to £100,000 each, as part of the £10 million Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund to drive private investment in nature and tackle climate change.

More than 60% of civil engineers do not feel climate change is prioritised sufficiently in infrastructure design and delivery, according to new research by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).