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StormHarvester win 'Smart Water Networks' Award at UK Water Industry Awards. 25 June 2026 Belfast, 25 June 2026 StormHarvester Ltd is incredibly proud to announce that StormHarvester has been shortlisted across multiple major categories at the prestigious Environmental Monitoring & StormHarvester Ltd is thrilled to announce that StormHarvester, in collaboration with Anglian Water Services, was named the winner of the Smart Water Networks Award at the UK Water Industry Awards. This accolade recognises the outstanding success of its joint initiative focusing on Inflow and Infiltration (I&I) reduction across Anglian Water's network. By combining predictive analytics with rapid operational field response, the partnership successfully mitigated network stress, optimised capacity, and protected local environments from preventable pollutions. StormHarvester Ltd want to say a massive thank you to the team at Anglian Water Services for their collaboration and dedication to driving proactive network management forward. Congratulations to everyone involved in achieving this award!

A pilot initiative exploring how gardens, landscapes and green infrastructure can create more resilient, desirable and successful communities. Adam White Why This Matters As climate change, water scarcity, flooding, overheating and biodiversity loss reshape the way places are designed, landscape has become critical infrastructure. Gardens, green spaces, streetscapes, green corridors and country parks are no longer simply amenities. They help manage water, support biodiversity, improve health and wellbeing, create opportunities for play and strengthen community identity. At the same time, homebuyers increasingly value access to nature, attractive green spaces, wildlife, shade and outdoor living. The Climate Resilient Communities Standard(TM) is being developed to help developers, planners and communities better understand, measure and demonstrate the value of high-quality gardens, landscapes and green infrastructure within new housing developments. In partnership with Anglian Water, Davies White Ltd led a one-day workshop at the renowned Beth Chatto Gardens to explore how gardens and landscapes in new housing developments can be designed to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss, and water stress. FIND OUT MORE HERE! How Davies White Ltd Got Here Over the past 18 months, Davies White Landscape Architects and the Sustainable Landscape Foundation have been working with developers, water companies, stewardship organisations and industry leaders to explore the future of landscape-led development. This has included collaboration with Anglian Water and the Future Homes Hub through workshops and discussions focused on water-smart communities, climate resilience, biodiversity enhancement and long-term stewardship. A common challenge has emerged. Whilst there are recognised frameworks such as the EPC for assessing the energy performance of homes, there is currently no simple and widely recognised way of assessing the quality, resilience and long-term performance of the gardens, landscapes and green infrastructure that surround them. Discussions with representatives from the RHS, Sustainable Landscape Foundation, Landscape Institute, BALI, developers, water companies and other stakeholders have highlighted growing interest in exploring a practical framework that could help define, measure and promote climate-resilient communities. The Opportunity The EPC transformed how people think about energy performance within the home. Davies White Ltd believe there is an opportunity to explore a similar approach for gardens, landscapes and green infrastructure. Imagine if a new development could demonstrate: * Climate resilience * Water efficiency * Biodiversity enhancement * Family wellbeing * Landscape quality * Long-term stewardship in a simple, transparent and measurable way. The ambition is simple: to help developers create better gardens, better landscapes and ultimately better communities. Better communities are easier to secure consent for, easier to market and more successful places to live. Why It Matters to Developers Planning & Consent * Strengthen sustainability narratives * Demonstrate commitment to climate adaptation * Support positive conversations with planning authorities * Provide evidence of landscape-led placemaking Sales & Marketing * Differentiate developments from competitors * Strengthen placemaking stories * Highlight tangible benefits to purchasers * Demonstrate long-term value ESG & Corporate Responsibility * Support biodiversity and environmental commitments * Demonstrate leadership within the sector * Align with emerging sustainability objectives Residents & Communities * Better outdoor living * Improved wellbeing * Stronger community identity * Increased access to nature * More resilient landscapes for future generations What Is the Climate Resilient Communities Standard(TM)? The Standard is being developed as a pilot framework for assessing the quality, performance and resilience of gardens, landscapes and green infrastructure associated with new housing developments. It considers three connected scales: The private garden and immediate outdoor living environment. The public realm, streetscape and neighbourhood green infrastructure. The wider development, including parks, country parks, green corridors, open spaces, biodiversity networks and long-term stewardship arrangements. Together these elements create the places people experience every day.The Standard is intended not only as an assessment framework, but also as a catalyst for better landscape-led design and delivery. Pilot Opportunity Davies White Landscape Architects and the Sustainable Landscape Foundation are seeking a small number of pilot developments.The pilot programme will test the framework, refine the assessment criteria and generate practical recommendations for future projects. Pilot projects may include: * Show home gardens * Residential gardens * Streetscapes and public realm * Green corridors * Sustainable drainage landscapes * Neighbourhood parks * Country parks * Strategic green infrastructure Participating developers will have a unique opportunity to help shape and test what could become an industry benchmark for climate-resilient placemaking. Why Davies White? Davies White Landscape Architects has spent almost two decades creating family-friendly, nature-rich and award-winning landscapes and gardens. Led by Landscape Institute Past President Adam White and double RHS Gold Medal-winning landscape architect Andrée Davies, Davies White specialises in landscape-led masterplanning, meaningful stakeholder engagement, country parks, green corridors, public realm, nature-based play and climate-resilient green infrastructure. Through a combination of in-person workshops, community events and digital engagement, the practice helps build support, ownership and better outcomes for projects. Its experience includes: * Landscape-led masterplanning * Country parks and green corridors * Community engagement and co-design * Nature-based play environmeants * RHS Gold Medal-winning projects * The RHS Back to Nature Garden with HRH The Princess of Wales * Workshops with Anglian Water and Future Homes Hub * Work with developers, land promoters and stewardship organisations Davies White Ltd believe landscapes should not simply be spaces left over after development. They should be the framework around which successful communities are built. Contact Davies White Ltd. Next Steps Davies White Ltd is inviting forward-thinking developers to contact Davies White Ltd to explore a pilot project. Together Davies White Ltd can test the framework on a live development, refine the methodology and demonstrate how climate-resilient gardens, landscapes and green infrastructure can create more resilient, marketable and successful communities whilst delivering lasting benefits for people and nature.

Mushroom and AI-focused startups secure £58m for water innovation. Article by Aniqah Majid UK STARTUPS specialising in water and wastewater treatment have secured a massive £58m (US$78m) in investment from Ofwat's Water Innovation Fund. From mushroom-based filters, to river acoustics, 19 businesses have been awarded a share of funding to scale their technologies as part of the Water Innovation Fund's sixth Water Breakthrough Challenge. The Fund has set the plan to invest £600m between 2020 and 2030 in technologies that can improve the water sector. Water innovations. Among the winners of this year's challenge includes Anglian Water's mycofiltration project, where mycelia, a root-like fungi, is being used to manage storm overflows. The fungi is "exceptional" at filtering water - using enzymes to break contaminants, including heavy metals and bacteria, into harmless compounds. Anglian Water, which has collaborated with Spore and Anvil and Imperial College London on the project, was awarded £1.5m. Another winning startup includes Severn Trent Water and SUEZ's "Good Vibrations" project which is using AI to listen to river acoustics to monitor their ecosystem health. Also awarded £1.5m, the technology works on the basis that healthy rivers produce a lot of sound. Lori Lawson Handley, the senior freshwater molecular ecologist UK at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and partner of the project said: ""Our project is a unique opportunity to combine eco-acoustics with environmental DNA analyses to provide detailed, real-time insights into how river biodiversity responds to stress from pollution and climate change." Long-term UK investment. The Water Innovation Fund has so far invested more than £190 million across 109 projects through the Innovation in Water Challenge, Water Breakthrough Challenge and Water Discovery Challenge competitions. With a focus on net zero, the fund was started to scale technologies that manage pollution and leaks in England and Wales, with a priority in protecting ecosystems. Jo Jolly, the director of innovation at Ofwat, said: "The water sector is going through its biggest transformation in 30 years. We have to make sure these changes drive far better outcomes for society and the environment. Multiple urgent challenges must be solved. And, importantly, our mindset must change. "So that's our mission: bold, innovative solutions that take a long-term approach to the health of our vital water system and the impact of the water industry on environments and communities." Staff reporter, The Chemical Engineer