Thames Water has published its drainage and wastewater management plan for the next 25 years, which will see the adoption of a nature-based approach to tackling sewage discharge and flooding.
Thames Water’s co-created Drainage and Wastewater Management Plan 2025-2050 (DWMP) outlines the water company’s proposals for reducing the risk of sewer…
Aco’s holistic approach to water management is proving increasingly valuable as an antidote to climate change and Britain’s diminishing biodiversity.
Management of surface water is the specialty of the Aco Group, widely acknowledged as being among the world’s top suppliers of storm water control and sustainable drainage systems. Extensive investment in…
Managing surface water in urban areas has the potential to enhance the environment. benefits already seen are just the beginning.
Imagine a future where instead of looking out over a sea of grey roofs, all you can see are meadows – but you are still in a city centre. Maybe it…
This video was first aired at NCE’s Future of Roads conference. Polypipe key account manager James Haddon speaks to NCE editor Claire Smith about the role the roads sector can play in contributing to reducing contamination. The discussion explores how roads can become more climate resilient and more responsive to…
As a designer of drainage schemes and as a zero pollution ambassador for not-for-profit organisation Stormwater Shepherds, I have undertaken a personal journey into how drainage design and sustainability is approached.
This involves influencing surface water run-off quantities, as well as many other elements that can often be overlooked when…
Managing floodwater does not always call for heavy civil engineering solutions – sometimes mimicking nature can be a better approach.
Planning flood prevention schemes usually takes years, requires major construction work and results in lots of concrete and steel, right? Well, not always – it can involve natural materials, be completed…
It may be preferable if surface water falling on hard surfaces is left to infiltrate into the ground rather than flowing into a piped sewer system, a manual published by Water UK has claimed.
The work to develop the manual was led by a group chaired by professor David Balmforth and…
Local government’s progress in implementing Sustainable Drainage systems has been criticised in a report highlighting “underlying failures within the current system.”
In its report “The effectiveness of SuDS delivery” Landscaping experts Illman Young has highlighted what it believes to be the shortcomings in Lead Local Flood Authorities implementation of Sustainable Drainage systems (SuDS). SuDS are a way of ensuring that surface water run off from built…
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