Infra decisions: why water cannot solve water’s problems
The UK’s water companies proposed spending billions on nature-based solutions (NBS) in their last five-year spending plans. We will be lucky to see a tiny fraction of that number actually get spent on nature. Jyoti Banerjee gets behind the data to ask why infrastructure fails the nature and resilience test.
New update report from Wye-Usk Transition Lab
After more than two years of activities and over 200 stakeholders, where has Wye-Usk Transition Lab got to? Jyoti Banerjee introduces the Sept 2025 progress report.
Is water just the problem of the water industry?
Water is the quintessential systemic resource which no single actor, including water companies, can manage alone. Vicky Vanderstichele argues that the water sector in the UK is in crisis precisely because it has sought to look at water as an isolated issue rather than as part of a system. Can we look at water in a completely different way?