12+ hour, 8+ min ago   (177+ words) In the engineering arm of the business, there are a number of roles available, including project engineers; project technicians; reliability engineers; process engineers; process safety engineers; commissioning assurance engineers; and design engineers. It comes as Yorkshire Water looks to pick…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (529+ words) United Utilities has been fined after sewage was discharged into the Irish Sea for more than 35 hours following the partial collapse of a pipe at Fleetwood Wastewater Treatment Works. The company was fined £900,000 at Preston Magistrates’ Court, with a further…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (361+ words) Answers to three Commons questions reveal pressures on water resources, the push for new reservoirs and the scale of investment planned for the sector. The answers, all given by Water Minister Emma Hardy on 8 September, cover three different aspects of…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (211+ words) Environmental Audit Committee will question the Climate Change Committee today as concerns grow over the pace of action on climate change and adaptation. Emma Pinchbeck, Chief Executive of the CCC, and Dr Eoin Devane, acting director for net zero, are…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (287+ words) Northern Ireland Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins has commissioned a governance audit of NI Water, citing the scale and severity of ongoing concerns, delays in investigations and other compliance matters. In an urgent written statement to the Northern Ireland Assembly, Kimmins…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (207+ words) The guidance sets out the Department’s key social and environmental policies and the priorities that Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins expects the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation to have regard to when carrying out its role of regulating the water…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (233+ words) The plant will contribute an extra 5.5 million litres of water a day into Val de la Mare reservoir. That’s equivalent to around a quarter of the Island’s average daily supply. Despite the desalination plant being up and running, Jersey Water…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (298+ words) South West Water has highlighted improvements in storm-overflow performance and record investment after criticism of its environmental record reported by The Guardian. The company’s response follows a report by The Guardian on an analysis by Friends of the Earth which…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (600+ words) Jointly led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the awards are made under the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030) and were presented during a high-level event at the 17th Session of the Conference of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (230+ words) The £25m scheme will increase the site’s treatment capacity by around 57%, significantly improving its ability to handle flows during periods of heavy rainfall and helping to reduce the risk of storm overflows. To increase the capacity on site, the project will…...