South West Water is helping to improve water quality in Combe Martin and reduce the use of storm overflows.

The Environment Agency is surging water company inspections in the South West – EA inspection teams are continuing to grow, focused on checks, enforcement, and regulation.

Wessex Water has awarded an AMP8 framework contract for water quality monitoring for Urban Pollution Management (UPM) assessment - Storm Overflow Assessment Framework (SOAF) level 3-4.

South West Water has announced a major investment programme in Dawlish to improve water quality and reduce the use of storm overflows in the area.

Yorkshire Water is investing £3 million to create a new underground storage shaft at the pumping station in Bempton, East Yorkshire to reduce overflows into the North Sea.

Southern Water is getting works get underway later this month in Whitstable, as AI technology is added to the utility’s underground network in an effort to cut storm overflows.

In a new project to protect communities in the village of Funtington in West Sussex, Southern Water teams are starting working to seal sewers.

Yorkshire Water is progressing its multi-million pound programme of works to tackle storm overflows to reduce discharges into local rivers and improve river water quality.

Southern Water has launched a new fund to harness ideas to help cut storm overflows on the Isle of Wight.

Defra Minister Steve Reed has announced that the Government is to carry out a full review of the water sector, saying that “fourteen years of Tory failure have left much of our infrastructure in disrepair.”