A major cross-border project which aims to improve water quality in Carlingford Lough and Lough Foyle through enhanced wastewater treatment has been officially launched in Derry.

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

The European Commission has launched an online public consultation as the first phase of the re-evaluation process for the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive – with a planned completion date of Q1 2019.

A new report published today by WWF-UK says 40% of rivers in England and Wales are polluted by sewage and is calling for urgent action by the Government and water industry regulator Ofwat.

The Blueprint for Water coalition is calling for water companies’ 2019 Price Review investment plans to deliver a ‘water neutral’ PR19 and for the firms to ensure that no overall increase in the amount of water is abstracted from rivers and groundwater - despite increases in population and climate change.

Newly unveiled plans described as turning the Danube and Croatia’s other rivers into "little more than regulated canals" have been protested to the European Union by WWF, Croatian NGOs and EuroNatur. 

As the UK’s implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) gathers pace, water companies and industry will need to make wastewater treatment and management a priority, says Air Products.

A second volume of guidance on River Basin Management Planning has been  published by Defra and the Welsh Assembly Government for consultation.

The Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat) has published its response to the Defra consultation on phosphates in domestic laundry cleaning products in England.

Defra has  published its response to the consultation on measures to implement the Nitrates Directive. Implementation of the Nitrates Directive is a “base measure” for the purposes of implementing the Water Framework Directive.