Yorkshire Water has been fined £350,000 after one of its sewage pumping stations polluted a York watercourse and ordered to pay costs of £14,028.65 and a victim surcharge of £170.
Thames Water has been fined £3.34 million in court after millions of litres of raw sewage flooded two rivers near Gatwick. In addition to the £3.34 million fine, the judge ordered Thames Water to pay the Environment Agency’s costs of £128,961.05.
A raw sewage discharge which lasted 23 hours and killed 5,000 fish in a Northamptonshire river.has cost Anglian Water a total of £560,170 in court.
An early alert system implemented by Yorkshire Water to detect equipment failure before it occurs has successfully prevented possible pollution incidents in Gargrave, near Skipton and Balby, Doncaster.
Yorkshire Water has been fined £1,600,750 for polluting a Bradford watercourse in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency. It was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £170 and £22,112.79 in costs.
Anglian Water and a contractor have been fined a total of £60,000 after raw sewage leaked into a river killing more than 2,400 fish.
Anglian Water has been fined £18,000, ordered to pay £10,957.80 in costs to the Environment Agency and a victim surcharge of £170 for the release of raw sewage into a river which went on for several hours.
Thames Water has been fined £4 million at Aylesbury crown court this week after untreated sewage escaped from sewers below London into a park and a river.
Yorkshire Water has been fined £1.1 million and ordered to pay £27,073 in costs for illegally discharging sewage that polluted the River Ouse near York as a result of a pump failure.
Southern Water has apologised for a pollution incident after pumps failed at its Brook Road Pumping Station in Swalecliffe, Kent, resulting in the imposition of a £500,000 fine in court yesterday.
With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, then environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”
ERG, the leading supplier of odour control systems and industrial gas cleaning & thermal systems, has been awarded the coveted King’s Award for Enterprise.
Welsh Water’s new artificial intelligence-driven tool, ORAI, has been shortlisted for three categories at the prestigious British Data Awards 2026 – underscoring the company’s commitment to using cutting-edge technology to deliver better outcome for customers.
Barhale has completed work on two separate Rapid Action Taskforce Spills projects it is carrying out for Severn Trent.