Southern Water has adopted an innovative Stage Zero Restoration approach for an Isle of Wight chalk stream – the technique, which encourages rivers to re-shape themselves has transformed the Lukely Brook.

The Greater Cambridge Chalk Stream Project, funded by Cambridge City Council, Cambridge Water (part of South Staffordshire Plc), Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA), Anglian Water and the Hobson Conduit Trust, marks a major milestone in the protection and restoration of some of the UK’s most fragile and rare ecosystems.

West Berkshire District Council has applied to the Environment Agency for a licence to abstract water from the River Kennet - one of England's most important chalk streams.

Since 2020 the Environment Agency has been working in partnership with Norfolk Rivers Trust to improve an internationally important chalk stream, the River Wensum.

Affinity Water has announced that for the first time it will voluntarily stop abstracting water from boreholes at the head of the Chess Valley which affects the River Chess in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Thames Water has reduced the amount of water it takes from underground sources near a High Wycombe chalk stream by more than seven million litres per day – equal to that used by around 20,000 homes – to help the waterway sustain wildlife.

Affinity Water has now completed a chalk stream restoration project working with the Environment Agency, Luton Borough Council and catchment partners - the River Lea is just one of 240 globally rare chalk streams in England.

Affinity Water is ruling out the prospect of a Spring hosepipe ban - its groundwater levels are continuing to recover as a result of heavy rain.