Our desks

Drainage News is organised into specialist desks. Each one follows its beat, applies the same house style and credits its sources on every story.

Drainage Engineering Desk

Drainage design, pipework, attenuation and soakaways.

The Drainage Engineering Desk reports on the technical side of the trade: drainage design practice, attenuation tanks and geocellular storage, soakaways and infiltration testing, pipe and chamber products, maintenance and the standards contractors and engineers work to. It draws on manufacturer releases, technical guidance and project news, and keeps product claims attributed to the companies making them.

Drainage News Newsroom

General news, round-ups and cross-cutting stories.

The Drainage News Newsroom handles stories that span several beats, from industry appointments and events to cross-sector reports. It also oversees house style, source credits and corrections across every desk.

Flood Risk Desk

Flood risk management, funding, warnings and resilience.

The Flood Risk Desk covers how the UK plans for, funds and responds to flooding. That includes Environment Agency and devolved-agency announcements, flood defence investment programmes, surface water and groundwater risk, property flood resilience and the planning policy that steers development away from risk. Stories are built from official publications, regulator statements and the organisations delivering schemes on the ground.

Green Infrastructure Desk

Green roofs, blue-green infrastructure and urban greening.

The Green Infrastructure Desk covers living systems that slow and store water: green and blue roofs, street trees and tree pits, bioretention, wetlands and urban greening policy. It tracks the products, projects and guidance shaping how towns and cities manage rainfall at source, and reports the evidence behind performance claims where it has been published.

SuDS Desk

Sustainable drainage policy, standards and schemes across the UK.

The SuDS Desk follows sustainable drainage from policy to the ground. Its beat covers the national standards for sustainable drainage, Schedule 3 of the Flood and Water Management Act, SuDS approving bodies, adoption arrangements and the swales, basins, permeable paving and rain gardens that deliver them. It works from government guidance, local authority decisions, industry bodies and scheme promoters, and explains what each change means for designers, developers and adopting authorities.

Water Resources Desk

Water companies, regulation and rainwater harvesting.

The Water Resources Desk follows the wider water sector where it meets drainage: water company investment plans, storm overflows, regulation by Ofwat and the Environment Agency, water efficiency and rainwater harvesting systems for homes and commercial sites. It reports from regulator documents, company announcements and trade press, attributing figures to the bodies that published them.