The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has launched a new inquiry on environmental impacts of data centres in the UK, as Energy Secretary Ed Miliband says future energy demand from data centres “remains inherently uncertain”.

Reservoir storage levels currently stand at 92.8% - 0.6% above average and river flows normal or higher for England at this time of year, according to the latest dry weather and drought report from the Environment Agency.

A new report funded by the Strategic Panel’s Market Improvement Fund to understand water use in data centres has recommended a series of actions to support this critical and emerging sector while safeguarding water resources.

Global engineering and built environment consultancy Arup, together with whole-lifecycle engineering services provider Binnies, has been appointed by Southern Water to help deliver the planning phase of the Thames to Southern Transfer project (T2ST).

Thames Water has gone out to tender today with a massive £6.84 billion (inc VAT) contract for the construction of the proposed South East Strategic Reservoir Option (SESRO) in Oxfordshire - now formally renamed as the White Horse Reservoir.

A new report from the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) is warning of the risk of global water bankruptcy with many regions of the world living beyond their hydrological means.

The Regulators' Alliance for Progressing Infrastructure Development (RAPID) has written to Anglian Water and Cambridge Water informing them that the current gate three date in the RAPID programme for the Fens Reservoir is to be delayed beyond 30 April 2026 to a later date.

Anglian Water has awarded the technical contract to develop its two upcoming desalination plants, in Lincolnshire and Norfolk, to the TYPSA-Stantec with an estimated value of £29 million.

Thames Water has issued a final call to comment on proposed new 150 billion litre reservoir in Oxfordshire - deadline to submit comments to the consultation closes at 11:59pm on 13 January 2026.

South East Water CEO David Hinton has told a House of Commons Committee that "lifestyle changes and extreme weather events" had contributed to recent water shortages in Tunbridge Wells.