Latest Water & Floods News

The Irish government has announced a €125M (£107M) investment for the next three years into a programme which helps rural areas deal with wastewater.

Webuild has signed a contract worth $4.7bn (£3.7bn) to build an artificial lake at Trojena, one of the projects within the Saudi Arabian mega-project called Neom.

The government does not know if it is making the UK more resilient to flooding despite its £5.2bn plan, a report from the spending watchdog has concluded.

Funding for flood defences in Wales must more than triple it is to keep up with the scale of change brought by the climate emergency, according to Natural Resources Wales (NRW).

New Zealand’s Central Interceptor wastewater tunnel project has become NZ$204M (£100M) more expensive to deliver due to inflation which has increased labour and material costs.

The Environment Agency has defended its decision to continue its flood alert warning contract worth £19.5M to tarnished Japanese software company Fujitsu, despite its involvement in the Horizon Post Office scandal.

Isle of Wight Council has warned that further ground movement in Bonchurch, Ventnor, “cannot be ruled out” after the area was struck by one of its biggest ever landslides last month.

Northumbrian Water has announced seven partners to form its Living Water Enterprise (LWE) to deliver £3.6bn of work during the eighth asset management period (AMP8) between 2025 to 2030.

Thames Water has released details of a £400M opportunity for a contractor to construct a replacement high lift pumping station (HLPS) at the Coppermills Advanced Water Treatment Works.

A former Environment Agency area manager has said that existing flood defence measures along the Rivers Severn and Wye are “creating a false sense of security” given the increasing intensity of floods due to the climate emergency.