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The Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) under the umbrella of the UK Government’s DEFRA (Department for Environmental, Food and Rural Affairs) states that; “Protection of public health of consumers through safeguarding the quality of drinking water is a key aspect of the drinking water quality regulatory framework.

Regulation 31 ensures that water suppliers, when producing and distributing drinking water, only use products and substances that do not cause any detrim

By far the most common polyethylene tanks produced by Enduratank are Vertical Storage Tanks. These come in many sizes and varieties from Potable and Non-Potable&

Easter washout! Bank holiday misery! Britain on flood alert! The Environment Agency issues 28 flood warnings in the wake of Storm Katie. Just another typical British Bank Holiday to make us all feel glum. But are we missing an opportunity with all this rain?

Rainwater is part of the never ending water cycle but fresh water is an increasingly scarce, precious and expensive resource and saving water is an essential part of our drive towards a sustainable society. F

Farming communities across Cumbria faced flooding for the third time in less than a month, following torrential rains and high winds in the wake of Storm Desmond. The Environment Agency has issued no less than 23 flood warnings across England and Wales and 14 in the North West, urging people to take immediate action.

According to the BBC, the MET office has already issued yellow warnings for rain throughout the region for Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Some 600 farmers already

E and T asks the question this week – “Is farming the future of cities?” – With more people than ever leaving their rural homes for high-rise buildings, the concept of ‘vertical farming’ may provide a way to feed the world’s growing populations across it’s emerging mega-cities. According to the United Nations, by 2050 some 66 per cent of the world’s population will be living in urban areas, many of them within mega cities like New York. Th

With hundreds of homes being evacuated around Cumbria and the Scottish borders, the farming community has rallied support for the victims, many pledging donations of forage and bedding. Forage Aid was established in the wake of the Somerset floods of 2013 and the organisation is currently taking offers on social media and through it’s Just Giving page here: https://www.justgiving.com/forage-aid/.

Meanwhile, farming throughout

The BBC examined this week how climate change is an issue affecting farming and food supplies throughout the world. Rainfall is not as predictable in modern times and drier weather can interfere with growing seasons. Enduramaxx has discussed on numerous occasions how, on top of the drier weather, water restrictions are also an increasingly worrying part of farming and water supplies.

Whether the rains are irregular or not, rainwater harvesting is one method that puts farmers more in c

Lawyers for WWF-UK, the Angling Trust and Fish Legal were at the High Court this week demanding a judicial review into water pollution caused by the agricultural industry, according to Farmers Weekly. The conservationist groups are accusing ministers of failing to protect England’s rivers and wetlands from pollution, including diffuse run-off from soils and pesticides entering watercourses.

The Angling Trust asserts that salmon populations have declined by up to 50 per cent in t

The Pilot Program for Climate Resistance (PPCR) is a major programme that invests in ways to integrate climate risk and resilience into core development planning across the globe, whilst complementing other on-going activities. Comprising 20 strategic programs for climate resilience under the PPCR, a pipeline of 66 projects and programs has emerged with PPCR grant allocations. So far the sub-committee has approved funding for 32 projects totalling $616 million.

With ten new countries

The Environment Agency water license reforms is a common subject throughout the country’s farming communities and recently highlighted during an abstractors’ workshop at South Pickenham Estate, near Swaffham. High on the agenda at the Wissey abstractors’ workshop, farmers, land managers and environmental groups heard more details about the proposed licensing changes.  Under the new proposals, groundwater abstraction limits could be calculated on a quota basis and