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Supporting the Construction Liveries Group

The Water Conservators are active members of the Construction Liveries Group which is looking at all aspects of construction including Heritage, Legal Liability and Training. As the largest producer of waste in the UK and with a major impact on the environment, the Water Conservators are encouraging the construction industry…...

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Supporting Women in Water

The Master and Members of the Company were very pleased to support Hearing Unheard Voices: the Dividends of Incorporating Diversity organised by the Community of Women in Water and hosted by Arup. Many unheard voices work on water-related challenges. One such group is women, who are 50% of the population,…...

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Can we afford Sustainable Cities?

Retrofitting the UK’s housing stock to make it sustainable could cost up to £200 billion, according to one leading expert, and it’s not clear where the money will come from. Studies have shown it might be possible to reduce the bill to £58 billion, but it remains a huge number.…...

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Checking our credentials

On a City Consorts’ visit to the College of Arms I heard about the history and work of the College.  As it is 25 years since we became a Livery company and 20 years since we received our royal charter I was intrigued to find more about the award of…...

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Celebrating King Athelstan crowned King of England

1100 years ago King Athelstan was crowned King of a newly unified England at Kingston on the River Thames.  In the 900’s the river marked the divide between Wessex and Mercia. As part of the celebrations the Water Conservators and our cutter Water Forget-me-not joined with other Livery cutters and…...

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Save the date – City Water Debate – Wednesday 18 March 2026 – WATER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, TOO LITTLE SUPPLY, TOO MUCH DEMAND

The UK is running out of water. Population and economic growth combined with climate change mean that consumption is increasingly outstripping supply. We are already abstracting more water from the environment than is sustainable. In England alone the Environment Agency has estimated that there will be shortfall of five billion…...

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Bursary and Dissertation Prize Winners

Past Master and Trustee, Professor Martin Bigg, was invited on behalf of the Water Conservation Trust, to Clare College, Cambridge, for the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development, Annual End of Course and Alumni Dinner.  It is 23 years since the first cohort of students came to Cambridge to begin…...

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240 years of Education and Research

Thank you to Queen Mary University of London for the invitation to the Company to the celebration of 240 years of education and research on 9 July 2024.  The Water Conservation Trust sponsors a bursary and dissertation prize for students on the MSc in Water and Environmental Management course at…...

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UK River Summit and Festival

Now in its 3rd year, the UK River Summit and Festival at Morden Hall is an independent event that brings together environmental leaders, policymakers, scientists, activists, and community members to discuss and develop solutions for the critical challenges facing the UK’s rivers. Past Master Peter Hall represented the Company. The…...

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Congratulations to Imperial winner

Congratulations to Hanzhi Chen for winning a Water Conservators’ Company Dissertation Prize for his dissertation entitled ‘The Impacts of Flame Retardants on Soil Quality, Human Health and the Environment from Agricultural Use of Sewage Sludge’, submitted for the degree of Master of Science in Environmental Engineering at Imperial, London. Deputy…...

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