The Environment Agency (EA) has launched a new whistleblowing portal to make it easier for internal water company whistleblowers to safely report serious environmental wrongdoing by their water companies.

Pennon Group has released an upbeat trading statement for the year ending 31 March 2024 – although the owners of South West Water, Bristol Water, Bournemouth Water and SES Water has acknowledged that it has had to reprofile its target of achieving overall 4 star EPA status from 2024 to 2025.

Yorkshire Water is planning to invest £1.3 million in Temple Normanton to reduce the number of storm overflows into Muster Brook, a tributary of the river Rother.

United Utilities has published a road map showing how it will deliver cleaner rivers, beaches and lakes across the North West – the biggest investment of its kind in the UK.

Southern Water has been given the green light to increase its investment in driving down the use of storm overflows after a short-term £10 million boost was ratified by Defra.

Severn Trent has announced it will invest over £4.4 billion on its storm overflows to help improve river health across its region.  The investment is part of the water company’s Storm Overflow Action Plan to meet government and industry targets.

Southern Water’s pilot project to prevent high groundwater levels inundating sewer pipes and flooding communities in an area of Hampshire has secured an 85% reduction in the need for emergency tankers.

United Utilities is investing £77.7 million at its wastewater treatment works in Burnley to help improve water quality in the River Ribble.

Uisce Éireann is getting work underway with crews arriving on site to deliver major wastewater upgrades for three Donegal communities.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced that water company inspections will more than quadruple as the Government cracks down on poor performing companies.