Severn Trent’s is progressing work in Nottinghamshire as part of its accelerated £450 million region-wide programme of investment, where once complete, spills from active storm overflows will reduce by 20% a year.

 Yorkshire Water is investing £2 million to reduce storm overflows into the river Dearne near Barugh Green, Barnsley.

Southern Water is piloting cutting edge technology to help reduce storm overflows and flooding in Kent and the Isle of Wight - new AI technology is being installed as part of the utility’s ongoing efforts to reduce storm overflows.

Yorkshire Water will start work will this month at two sites across west Leeds and Bradford as part of a project to improve the water quality in Pudsey Beck by reducing storm overflow discharges.

After the wettest winter on record for the East of England, Anglian Water has outlined its plans for additional work to protect the environment - in total, an investment of almost half a billion pounds will be spent this year alone.

Southern Water has announced that work to innovate as part of its wider goal of driving down use of storm overflows has been recognised with two projects awarded a share of Ofwat’s Innovation Fund.

Water UK has accused Ofwat of loading water companies with a huge amount of paperwork and creating a “labyrinthine framework of intense complexity” to assess the water companies’ AMP8 Business Plans.

The Chair of the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.(EFRA ) has this morning written to the CEOs of United Utilities and South West Water (SWW) to raise the Committee’s serious concerns over the recent incidents involving sewage being illegally pumped into Lake Windermere, and the parasite outbreak in the water network in Devon.

Following its £1 billion equity raise in October 2023, Severn Trent has unveiled its plan to deliver storm overflow solutions across 900 locations in the Midlands.

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water has officially launched its interactive map which provides near real-time information about the operation of its storm overflows to coincide with the start of the UK bathing season.