Scottish Water has unveiled plans for a £1.7 million project to help prevent rags, wet wipes and other sewer related debris from entering an Edinburgh watercourse.

South West Water has reduced storm overflow spills by 40% at one of its wastewater treatment works in Cornwall which had the third highest spilling overflow, as it continues to drive improvements in spill numbers across the region.

South West Water is in the process of investigating the cause of the high spill numbers during 2024 from its Salcombe Regis storm overflow.

Anglian Water has recently completed the installation of a further two new storage tanks in Horncastle in Lincolnshire and West Runton in Norfolk respectively at a combined cost of £2.7 million.

A giant countdown clock is on display in Southern Water’s Operational Control Centre – ticking down the days until the start of the Environment Agency’s bathing water season.

Following the publication by the Environment Agency of water company Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) Annual Return data for 2024, Anglian Water’s Director of Water Recycling Emily Timmins, sets out Anglian Water’s plans to cut storm overflows over the next five years.

Upgrades to infrastructure by Southern Water paired with innovative new technology and automated intelligence have dramatically reduced storm overflows from Terminus Road in Cowes, Isle of Wight.

A Yorkshire Water project in Ben Rhydding to reduce the number of discharges into the river Wharfe from a storm overflow has completed, helping to improve the quality of the watercourse.

Southern Water is progressing work on £170 million investment in a storm overflow reduction scheme to improve water quality in Portsmouth Harbour.

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.