Water

Legislation will strengthen regulators' powers to ban bonuses and impose tougher penalties on water firms, including custodial sentences for executives who break the law

Trade association argues regulator's current proposals to limit increase to household bills at £19 a year will drive away investment from sector

Lakes, rivers, and aquifers degrading in half of world’s countries, putting the health and livelihoods of billions of people under threat, UN warns

Direct loan to provide access to clean water for around 100,000 people and boost UK export opportunities

Ofwat fines three of England’s water suppliers multimillion-pound sums following 'biggest ever' wastewater management investigation

Environment Agency promises 'tougher' regulatory approach as it reveals total pollution incidents from sewerage and water supply assets increased for second year running

The relationship between water and carbon emissions should be carefully considered in efforts to decarbonise the built environment, writes Cenergist’s Caroline Gray-Mason

Christian Aid report claims leading avocado growing regions in Mexico, Spain, South Africa, Burundi, and Chile are being 'smashed' by climate impacts

A major new report warns how water is 'the silent partner in all human activity', and urgent investment in new infrastructure is needed to avert disaster

Money raised from fines for pollution breaches is to be reinvested in new Water Restoration Fund