United Utilities is due to start five projects over the next six months to improve water quality across Stockport.

Dale Foster, Business Development Manager with leading wastewater technology specialists HUBER Technology UK, takes a look at how new build solutions afford the water companies a better opportunity to meet demanding timescales and tough regulatory targets in AMP8 to deliver speedy improvements to CSO infrastructure - and also keep costs down in terms of both time and money.

The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) is to conclude its investigation into the regulation of combined sewer overflows after securing significant progress in tackling the issues it has raised.

The Environment Agency has today published water company Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) Annual Return data for 2024 showing the frequency and duration of spills from storm overflows in England - total duration of monitored spill events in 2024 reached a record 3,614,428 hours.

Steve Morris, Managing Director at wastewater technology specialists HUBER UK looks forward to the start of AMP8 on 1^st April and says there is a real appetite and enthusiasm in the water companies and their supply chain partners alike to start work on the water industry’s biggest-ever investment programme.

Yorkshire Water has begun work on a £9.7 million investment at Addingham sewage pumping station (SPS) and Low Mill Lane combined storm overflow (CSO) to reduce discharges into the river Wharfe.

Southern Water has introduced twin radar sensor heads, the most accurate reporting technology available, for closer monitoring on its storm overflows.

Untreated sewage discharges and unpermitted outfalls have caused dangerously high levels of bacteria to be found at multiple sites across a nine-mile stretch of the River Roding, London’s third longest river, a new study by environmental charity Thames21 and The River Roding Trust has found.

The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has concluded that there have been failures to comply with environmental law by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Environment Agency (EA) and Ofwat following an investigation into the regulation of network combined sewer overflows (CSOs).

New data published today by Tideway shows the impact of London’s new super sewer on the River Thames - the new tunnel network captured nearly 850,000 tonnes of sewage in a recent single 24h period of heavy rain.