Around 600 million litres of sewage-contaminated water are estimated to enter the River Roding and its tributaries every year via unpermitted and previously unmonitored outfalls, according to a new citizen science study led by environmental charities Thames21 and the River Roding Trust.

Leading multi-disciplinary professional services consultancy WSP has been appointed to National Highway’s Water Quality Plan - WSP has been awarded the role of technical partner on the programme, supported by Mott Macdonald, Ramboll, and AECOM.

Supreme Court judges have ruled unanimously against United Utilities in an appeal case about sewage discharges brought by Manchester Ship Canal Company.

Severn Trent is progressing work on a £7.6 million upgrade for Hixon sewage treatment works - the utility’s latest project to improve the water and wastewater networks in Staffordshire.

Scottish Water is progressing work on Combined Sewers Overflows (CSOs) and sewer network upgrades around the Water of Leith to improve urban waters in Edinburgh, 

Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey has confirmed that action to tackle sewage pollution and clean up waterways has been expanded via the updated Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan.

A team of divers have completed work to offshore pipes at the Coal Authority’s Dawdon mine water treatment scheme as part of a major marine civil engineering project.

The Marine Conservation Society has announced that it is taking legal action against the UK Government as a result of what it describes as “their failure to address the sewage pollution scandal facing English shores.”

Highways England has published details of thousands of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in use on the road network in the Greater London area.