A trial run by South East Water in Hampshire has used soil data to better understand timing and drivers of nitrate risk in order to inform targeted, evidence-led crop management. This could help reduce the amount of fertiliser wasted and leaching into waterways and groundwater benefitting both farmers and water companies.

Affinity Water and Cambridge Water are working in collaboration with farmers to expand the scheme to enhance ecosystem services provided from the farmed land around their water sources.

Cambridge Water’s new state-of-the-art water treatment plant at Fowlmere was officially opened by The Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, Chris Smith, former Chair of the Environment Agency, on Thursday 16 May.

The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has warned that there is a “nitrate time bomb in many of our groundwater sources.”

The Welsh Assembly is introducing new regulations covering the whole of Wales to protect water quality from agricultural pollution.

A €5 million EU-funded study is exploring agricultural practices and EU policies related to drinking water quality and the use of pesticides and nitrogen.

In a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency, environmental offences for nitrates pollution and over-abstraction have cost a Shropshire farmer £36,000 in court.

The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee is holding its first evidence session in its nitrates inquiry tomorrow when the Committee will hear rom academics and Environment groups.

Lesley Griffiths, Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs in the Welsh Assembly has said she “is minded to introduce” a whole Wales approach to tackling nitrate pollution from agriculture and improve water quality.

The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has launched a new inquiry into nitrates pollution in the UK.