Environment

UU installs novel nutrient removal technology at wastewater plant

Affinity sets out £250m water transfer plans

Advancing WINEP and levelling the playing field

Southern lifts hosepipe ban

Benyon reiterates £250m fine threat

Brexit is a ‘massive opportunity’ to rethink regulation

Severn Trent tenders for natural capital partners

Severn Trent has launched a tender process for supply chain partners specialising in natural capital solutions ranging from reedbeds and wetlands to chemical reduction solutions and natural flood management. The company said it was taking a "unique" approach to the process to help meet its carbon reduction and environmental improvement ambitions.

OEP mulls enforcement action against Defra

Cathryn Ross: Water sector needs a sense of urgency

Retained EU Law Bill a ‘sword of Damocles’ for water

Yorkshire secures drought permits

Ofwat encourages equity raising to finance investment

David Black, Ofwat's chief executive, has told investors he expects that water companies will need to raise equity as well as debt to finance the investment needs of the next price review from 2025. Black also said it is "extraordinary" that companies have not recognised the benefits of linking executive pay to performance, something they will be required to do as part of their licence conditions for PR24.

Environment Agency urged to act faster on improving river basins

Ofwat mulls universal pollution commitments at PR24

Ofwat chair: Ban directors of poor performing companies