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Company News
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
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Thames Water's 16-week public consultation on its draft Water Resources Management Plan has now closed.
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Company News
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
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Emergency Environment Agency response teams discovered hundreds of dead and dying fish at Ashurst Bridge in the New Forest after receiving reports from members of the public at the weekend.
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Water Issues
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
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The Environment Agency holding an open meeting on 15 September for local residents to discuss plans for the new flood risk management scheme for Nottingham as it runs through Attenborough.
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Water Issues
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
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One of the largest ever investments to reduce the risk of flooding in north Wales has been completed for the city of Bangor.
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Regulation and Legislation
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
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On Wednesday 27 August 2008, FormFin Limited of Merse Road, Redditch pleaded guilty at Redditch Magistrates Court to polluting the Blacksoils Brook and River Arrow.
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Water Issues
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
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Work by the Environment Agency is helping world experts to save the glass eel – one of the most endangered species on Earth – from almost certain extinction.
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Water Issues
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
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Defra has submitted two new land-based sites and five new marine sites to the European Commission as candidate Special Areas of Conservation (cSAC).
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Regulation and Legislation
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
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Ofwat has published the conclusions arising from its consultation earlier this year on future strategy for customer charges for water and sewerage services.
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Company News
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
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South West Water has said that 11 out of 17 operational reservoirs are full and total storage is at just over 98% - five per cent up on the same period last year and nearly double that of the last drought year in 1995.
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Company News
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
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Scottish Water has emphasised that its drive to improve efficiency has helped keep increases in charges between 2006-2010 at 0.5 per cent below inflation, a lower increase than those experienced in England and Wales.
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Water Issues
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
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The Environment Agency is continuing with its work on flood defences –this week the Environment Agency’s Operations Delivery Team started work on the River Severn at Llanidloes, and Powys to alleviate the risk of flooding in the area.
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Water Issues
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
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On 5 September, Expo Zaragoza 2008 in Spain will host a European Day on Water Scarcity and Drought.
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Water Issues
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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Following on from a record-breaking wet summer in 2007, heavy rain this August has resulted in more floods in many areas of the Scotland, according to new figures released by the Met Office.
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Regulation and Legislation
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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Defra has announced legal protection for a rare frog with a distinctive accent.
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Water Issues
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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A £1million scheme to reduce the risk of flooding to residents of Cookham has been given the go-ahead by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.
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Regulation and Legislation
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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South West Water has been ordered to pay £11,875 in fines and costs after sewage overflowed from a North Devon pumping station into a tributary of the River Taw. The case was brought by the Environment Agency.
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Water Issues
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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At World Water Week in Stockholm yesterday WWF Director-General James Leape called on governments to support the entry into force of the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention—an international agreement which could play a key role in water security for about 40% of the world's population.
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Company News
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
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Northern Ireland Water’s (NI Water) £16 million, North Down Strategic Trunk Main project has been successfully completed and can now deliver up to 55 million litres of treated water each day to thousands of customers in North Down, Ards and the Greater Belfast areas.
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Company News
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
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United Utilities are due to begin improvement works on the Fylde coast this autumn, with work scheduled to start in September 2008, subject to planning permission.
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Company News
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 |
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Scottish Water is about to start work on a £3.6million treatment works to improve drinking water supplies in the Royal Deeside village of Ballater.
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Regulation and Legislation
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
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Water UK ,the industry association that represents UK statutory water supply and wastewater companies at national and European level, has published its responses to two separate consultations by Defra and the Treasury, and by the regulator Ofwat, on extending competition in the water industry.
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Company News
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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Members of the Vale of White Horse District Council have unanimously called for a public inquiry to thoroughly investigate Thames Water's case for a reservoir.
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Water Issues
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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The Government's environmental champion Natural England is starting work in Cheshire to boost the county's disappearing wet meadows and encourage the return of endangered wildlife.
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Regulation and Legislation
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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Ofwat yesterday published its proposals to fine Tendring Hundred 0.3% of its turnover – a total of £42,000 – for failing to provide the regulator with reliable, accurate and complete information.
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Company News
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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A third new household water supplier is set to enter the water and sewerage sector in England and Wales after Ofwat yesterday launched a consultation into proposed services for a site at Tidworth, near Andover.
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Water Issues
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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In the past ten days the pace of Arctic sea ice loss has accelerated significantly, triggered by a series of strong storms that broke up thin ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.
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Company News
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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South West Water (SWW) has unveiled its latest plan for a treatment works to stop raw sewage being discharged into the sea in North Cornwall - a new scheme for a single treatment works at either Fenterleigh or Trevalga Black Barn.
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Water Issues
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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A Somerset company has been ordered to pay £3,000 in fines and costs for discharging poor quality effluent from a private sewage treatment plant at Dunchideock near Exeter.
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Company News
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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According to the Consumer Council for Water, there are mixed prospects ahead for water customers following yesterday’s publication by water companies in England and Wales of their draft business plans.
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Regulation and Legislation
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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Householders and businesses who get their water from private supplies such as wells or boreholes - rather than from the public mains supply - are set to see their water quality improve.
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