The Telegraph has launched a Clean Rivers campaign – saying the campaign is needed “to reverse the damage to our waterways before they succumb once again to the sort of pollution that took decades to eradicate.”

NI Water has gone out to tender with a contract for the provision of cleaning and ancillary services at various sites throughout Northern Ireland.

Wessex Water is inviting contractors and consultants to register their interest in providing works and professional services to the water company.

Yorkshire Water has been fined £233,000 and ordered to pay £18,766.06 costs and £170 Victim Surcharge after it admitted to being responsible for a sewage leak that led to the deaths of hundreds of fish in Tong Beck, near Bradford.

Irish Water, working in partnership with Cork City Council, is commencing the next stage of the Cork South Docks Network Extension and Upgrade Project following the successful completion of works on Anglesea Street in late 2021.

The Environment Agency has outlined the work it has undertaken in around £30 million worth of investments in flood defence schemes, repairs and improvements to the thousands of flood risk assets in the Great River Ouse catchment.

Ofwat is today proposing a small and temporary increase to the price caps in the business retail market - the temporary increase is intended to allow retailers to share some of the unexpected costs associated with bad debt that have arisen following the Covid-19 pandemic.