Yorkshire Water is progressing work on more projects in its £1.5 billion Yorkshire-wide programme to reduce the frequency and volume of discharges from combined storm overflows (CSO) into watercourses.

Scottish Water has published annual overflow event data for 2025 from over 1000 additional monitored locations across Scotland, delivering the next stage of its commitment to make more information on wastewater overflows publicly available.

Yorkshire Water has begun work on projects in the villages of Hebden and Malham in North Yorkshire to reduce the number and frequency of discharges from the sewer network into the River Wharfe and River Aire, respectively.

South West Water is reporting that it has reduced storm overflow use by 17% and cut spill duration by 25% over the past year, despite the South West experiencing a substantially wetter year than the rest of England.

Yorkshire Water has started work on one of seven storm overflow projects in the Sheffield area as part of its £1.5 billion investment to reduce the number of discharges into watercourses across the region.

United Utilities has launched a market engagement exercise to engage with interested suppliers ahead of going out to tender with a £30 million (inc VAT) AMP8 contract for the supply, delivery, commissioning of screens and associated equipment.

United Utilities is due to start five projects over the next six months to improve water quality across Stockport.

Dale Foster, Business Development Manager with leading wastewater technology specialists HUBER Technology UK, takes a look at how new build solutions afford the water companies a better opportunity to meet demanding timescales and tough regulatory targets in AMP8 to deliver speedy improvements to CSO infrastructure - and also keep costs down in terms of both time and money.

The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) is to conclude its investigation into the regulation of combined sewer overflows after securing significant progress in tackling the issues it has raised.

The Environment Agency has today published water company Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) Annual Return data for 2024 showing the frequency and duration of spills from storm overflows in England - total duration of monitored spill events in 2024 reached a record 3,614,428 hours.