The launch of the Environment Agency’s Be Flood Smart campaign last month was a great step to raise awareness of what householders can do to protect themselves against flooding.
This can be by carrying out works to their house to make it more resilient to flooding or it can be…
Construction work on a £10M defence scheme aimed at protecting 3,000 properties on the Essex coast from flooding will start this week by contractor Bam Nuttall.
Working on behalf of the Environment Agency, Bam Nuttall’s operation will see the sea wall at Cockett Wick, between Jaywick and Seawick, strengthened and raised.…
Affinity Water and Severn Trent Water have appointed consultancies Mott MacDonald and Adams Hendry Consulting to lead the delivery of the development consent order (DCO) application for a water transfer scheme designed to improve England’s water resilience.
The scheme will involve upgrades to the Grand Union Canal – which stretches 220km…
The first shaft on the eastern section of London’s new super sewer - the Thames Tideway Tunnel - has been capped off marking a milestone for the £4.5bn project.
Tideway announced the completion of the concrete cover slab at King Edward Memorial Park (Kemp) foreshore site yesterday by its joint venture…
Work to protect 194 homes in Bangor, North Wales from the risk of coastal flooding has got underway with Griffiths Construction starting work on a £4.3M scheme.
Expected to last for 10 months, the project will see the Griffiths construct a main flood wall, cladded with limestone, three separate smaller concrete…
Widespread flooding in southern Ukraine caused by the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam will have enormous long-term ramifications for the Kherson region, according to a dam expert.
The 3.2km long, 30m high dam across the Dnipro River was breached on 6 June in an attack that Ukraine is calling a…
Repairing the destroyed Nova Kakhkovka hydroelectric dam in Ukraine will be a difficult and time consuming task, according to experts.
The 3.2km long, 30m high dam across the Dnipro River was breached on 6 June in an attack that Ukraine is calling a Russian terrorist attack, but which Russia is blaming…
Key industry figures have called for investment in infrastructure and new legislation as Scottish Water reported a huge spike in demand following the recent warm weather.
The utility this week asked customers to take shorter showers among other measures in the wake of an increase in demand of up to 100M…
Project partners to work with United Utilities over the next 10 years are being sought as the the water company calls for firms to register interest in delivering a variety of work over its next two five year Asset Management Plan Periods (AMP) - AMP8 and AMP9.
In total, United Utilities…
The Nova Khakovka hydro-electric dam across the Dnipro River in Ukraine has been destroyed, sending a wave of water downstream and causing large scale physical and ecological destruction.
Ukraine is claiming that Russia caused an explosion that breached the dam to stall its counter-offensive, with president Zelenskyy having said that mines…
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