A major £3m upgrade of the sewer network in two West Sussex villages will better protect households from flooding and prevent storm overflows.

Council officials have been accused of being 'incredibly shifty' after questions were asked about an aquifer which could make flooding in Ringmer worse.

The project will also include activities such as volunteering and "social prescribing" to highlight the health benefits of water.

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Aquifer levels in parts of western Kansas that rely on groundwater for everything from drinking to irrigation fell more than a foot last year, Kansas Geological Survey scientists said Tuesday. The ...

But just a 25-minute drive away in the peaceful village of Balcombe, West Sussex, furious homeowners are pursuing their own long-running case against exploratory oil extraction, which experts ...

West Sussex County Council is taking advantage of the so-called "flexible use of capital receipts scheme" introduced in 2016 by the UK government to allow councils to use money from the sale of assets ...

A Met Office warning for rain, which covers much of England, including Surrey and Sussex, is in place until 10:00 GMT on Tuesday. A yellow weather warning for wind is also in place until 06:00 on ...

This time, water gushed forth. “Everyone got excited because this was the discovery of an aquifer that no one knew existed,” says Elizabeth Quiroga Jordan, a petroleum engineer at Ruden AS ...

The Bureau of Meteorology has developed the National Aquifer Framework for naming and grouping hydrogeologic units from across Australia to address these jurisdictional differences. The framework is ...