A new report is warning that the cost of water risks to business could be more than five times greater than the cost of taking action now to tackle them - and investors are calling for greater transparency and action from companies to address the risks.

Waterwise has marked the start of the sixth annual Water Saving Week in the UK with a focus on climate change and water efficiency by urging the public to save water and save carbon.

Portsmouth Water's consultation on its proposals for the £106 million Havant Thicket Reservoir near Havant, which is being delivered in collaboration with Southern Water, starts on Monday 11th May .

Jersey Water is preparing its desalination plant to be brought in to service as a precautionary measure due to very low Autumn rainfall and the long term forecast predicting drier than average weather through to the end of January 2019.

Following one of the costliest years for natural catastrophes in the past decade, Lloyd’s of London has announced an aggregated market loss of £2 billion for 2017.

Extreme weather events and natural disasters have been identified as the top two global risks most likely to happen in the next ten years, according to The Global Risks Report 2018 published by the World Economic Forum to coincide with this week’s Davos summit.

New research published in the journal Science and led by Oxford University is highlighting the accelerating pressure on measuring, monitoring and managing water locally and globally.

The 4^th Arab Water Forum under the theme of Sharing Water … Sharing Destiny, is taking place this week in Cairo, Egypt under the auspices of the League of Arab States (LAS) and the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation of Egypt.

Big business is investing in water security at record levels, according to the annual Global Water Report published today by CDP, the non-profit global environmental disclosure platform.

Plans to make sure water supplies across the south east of England don’t leave future generations high and dry will be top of the agenda when the Consumer Council for Water (CCWater) meets in Reading on Tuesday next week.