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The cheapest kilo in Norfolk is under someone's lawn
There are 13,502 domestic septic tanks in Norfolk's nutrient-sensitive catchments — the largest identified point-source phosphorus load in the county. We asked the Environment Agency a simple question about the upgrade programme the whole housing strategy depends on. The answer should worry anyone relying on it.
July 2026 · Read the full article →
The most precise line on a very old map
A firm in this sector sells "certainty about the quality of your mitigation" on the strength of state-of-the-art GIS. But in nutrient neutrality the uncertainty was never at the catchment boundary — and the regime's own authors have always said so. Why working a regulator can reproduce beats precision they must take on trust.
July 2026 · Read the full article →
From sewage farms to smart homes
Britain built the world's first large-scale water reuse in the 1860s, then quietly gave up on it. The history of why isn't nostalgia — it's a specification for the technology that finally makes home water reuse work. Here are three that meet it.
July 2026 · Read the full article →
