Environment Secretary Steve Reed will today pledge to ‘clean up Windermere’ setting out the Government’s support for the long-term ambition of ‘only rainwater’ entering England’s largest lake and end sewage discharges.

Wessex Water has completed the construction of a £2 million project which will help to enhance the health of the River Avon running through west Wiltshire.

Yorkshire Water has completed a new 835-metre sewer underneath Ilkley to reduce the frequency and duration of discharges to the river Wharfe.

Yorkshire Water is planning to build an integrated wetland at its South Elmsall wastewater treatment works to help reduce storm overflow discharges into Frickley Beck – a tributary of the river Don.

Wessex Water is investing £8 million to enhance Shaftesbury and Mere water recycling centres to improve water quality around both towns throughout 2024.

The ecological and health threats of synthetic dyes entering wastewater systems have been detailed in a new study, which calls for new laws worldwide on water management, and urgent investment in new sustainable treatment processes.

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.

Wessex Water is investing more than £12 million in two schemes in some of the county’s most rural areas to safeguard the environment by reducing chemicals and the discharge of untreated wastewater into watercourses.

Warren Beere, Condition Assessment Engineer at Xylem, takes a look at how taking a data-led approach to rising main management has a key role to play in preventing sewage and wastewater pollution.

Southern Water has started work on a £3 million upgrade to its West Wellow Wastewater Treatment Works in Hampshire.