Ofwat has ruled against Southern Water in a dispute with a customer about the reasonableness of connection costs to a residential premises – the water company has been ordered to pay a refund plus interest.

With just two weeks to go before the UK EU referendum, a final poll by the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA) shows 86% believe that voters have insufficient information to be able to take environment and sustainability issues into account when they cast their vote. 

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has issued updated directions to the Environment Agency on its obligations to protect groundwater.

A High Peak animal feed business was fined £18,000 today for discharging polluting waste into the public sewer and causing damage to a treatment works.

MOSL has provided an update on the work of the independent Open Water Assurance Group set up by Defra to inform policy advice officials provide to the Secretary of State in respect of the opening the non-household retail market for water and sewerage services in 2017.

The Competition and Markets Authority has set out further details of a current investigation into a cartel amongst a number of companies who manufacture galvanised steel tanks.

Ofwat has confirmed that the modification of the water companies’ conditions of appointment to include a readiness condition ahead of the opening of the new retail market in England in April 2017 is now in place.

The Department for Food Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) has published the outcome of its consultation on the draft Regulations which would enable water and sewerage companies to exit from the non-household retail market.

The organisers of Glastonbury Festival, the world’s biggest music festival, have been ordered to pay £31,000 in fines and costs for pollution offences involving human sewage.