Artificial intelligence (AI) in Kent helped Southern Water find a significant blockage beneath the streets of Folkestone - which threatened to cause misery to the local community.

A 120 tonne fatberg, equivalent in size of a blue whale, has been removed from a large trunk sewer in Oxford. Clearing the fatberg required a coordinated effort from multiple Thames Water teams and contractors, highlighting the scale and complexity of the operation.

Water UK, the organisation which represents all the UK water companies, are calling on the Government to go further and faster on in taking action on wet wipes.

Scottish Water is launching a new partnership approach to tackling the threat of fatbergs in city centre sewers.

Drainage company Lanes Group has announced the launch of their fifth annual Unblocktober campaign.

Allowing fat and oil to get into the Thames Water sewer network has cost a pub management company £91,000 in court.

A clump of wet wipes and other 'unflushables’ as has been dragged from a Thames Water sewer, as blockages in the region climb almost 20 per cent during lockdown.

The majority of Britons - 59% - would not support the proposed government ban on disposable wipes, despite 93% of people agreeing that the British public needs more education on the dangers of fatbergs, according to new research from Lanes Group plc.

A pioneering Channel 4 documentary on fatbergs featuring Thames Water will be aired on prime time TV tomorrow evening at 9pm.

Thames Water is spending £1 million every month to clear fatbergs from its sewer network – with four areas named as the worst offenders.