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100,000 kilometres of England’s sewer pipes were built before the mid-1960s and use an old-fashioned design that carries two kinds of waste: rainwater from street drains, and sewage from homes.

They are therefore known as ‘combined’ sewers. Combined sewers were built many decades before modern rates of population growth and climate change were understood, which means that there is often now more sewage and rainwater going into these systems than first envisaged.

Water UK has responded to the Environment Agency's State of the Environment report

Water UK has published information on the levels of service received by developers from their water companies.

Water UK Chief Executive, Michael Roberts, has responded to the Centre for Policy Studies report on the cost of nationalisation.

Water UK have commissioned Frontier Economics, with Professor David Saal of Loughborough University, to assess productivity in the English water sector since privatisation.

A vital new measure in the Housing and Planning Bill has been proposed by the House of Lords that will help ensure essential flood prevention measures are put in place at new housing developments.