Farmers in Gloucestershire have secured more than £680,000 in funding from Severn Trent for on-farm improvements that help improve drinking water quality and river health across the region.

The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) is calling for a national pilot scheme to be established in the UK by 2025, to make treatment wetlands the default option for meeting new nutrient neutrality targets and to establish and develop an effective market in nutrient trading and offsetting by creating a nutrient offsetting code.

Affinity Water and Cambridge Water have announced that their novel cover crops scheme has been a success again this year.

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

A new report from the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee published today is calling for Government action to “stop using seas as a sewer” and warning that the Government’s ‘out of sight, out of mind’ treatment of the oceans is putting marine resources at great risk.

The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has flagged up a raft of concerns over the possibility of deteriorating water quality, growing nitrate pollution and inadequate monitoring after the UK leaves the European Union.

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.

The European Commission is urging Germany to take stronger measures to combat water pollution caused by nitrates.