Severn Trent to pay £600,000 to Trent Rivers Trust following pollution incident of Leicestershire brook
Severn Trent has agreed to pay £600,000 to the Trent Rivers Trust following a pollution incident - the payment follows the Environment Agency's investigation into the pollution of a Leicestershire brook by the water company.
Housing construction company to pay pollution sanction for blocking Pitty Beck multiple times
A housing construction company and its contracted engineers will donate a total of £135,000 to the Aire Rivers Trust after polluting Pitty Beck multiple times while building a new housing estate near Bradford.
Environment Agency - Müller to make £100,000 charity payment for ammonia discharge to the River Tern
The Shropshire Wildlife Trust has received a financial boost after the Environment Agency accepted an Enforcement Undertaking (EU) offer from Müller UK & Ireland Group LLP.
Yorkshire Water pays £300k in EA Enforcement Undertaking for environmental damage caused by valve failure
Yorkshire Water is paying Yorkshire Wildlife Trust £300,000 in an Enforcement Undertaking which has been accepted by the Environment Agency.
Three water companies to pay £847,000 in Enforcement Undertakings accepted by Environment Agency
Three water companies have agreed to pay a total of £847,000 in Enforcement Undertakings accepted by the Environment Agency during the period 10 September 2021 to 31 December 2021.
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Webinar to explore moving indirect potable water reuse to full implementation
UK water companies are invited to join an upcoming webinar which will explore how the sector can take indirect potable reuse (IPR) from concept to full-scale operational reality. -
Kohtari CEO says joined-up water intelligence needed to predict, not just react - not more data
James Sumsion, CEO of predictive water intelligence specialists Kohtari, says the water sector needs to take a giant leap forward, so that it can anticipate and act upon water quality issues - rather than merely react. -
IED compliance – using automated sliding floodgates to support secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites
Ray Moulds, Sales Director at Flood Control International, takes a look at how automated sliding floodgates are supporting secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites. -
Making storm overflow data make Sense – Metasphere launches dedicated monitoring device
With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, then environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”
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