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

Uisce Éireann has achieved significant milestones on its €139 million wastewater project in Arklow - approximately 80% of the works to the sewer network have been completed along the North and South quays, with over 1.8 km of new sewers already installed and all tunnelling works completed.

The Good Law Project has announced that it has been granted a hearing in the High Court in its legal challenge to force the Government to take much tougher action to stop water companies from discharging raw sewage into coastal waters.

Yorkshire Water has been fined £233,000 and ordered to pay £18,766.06 costs and £170 Victim Surcharge after it admitted to being responsible for a sewage leak that led to the deaths of hundreds of fish in Tong Beck, near Bradford.

Irish Water, working in partnership with Clare County Council, has commenced works to construct Kilrush Wastewater Treatment Plant, to end the discharge of raw sewage into the Shannon Estuary.

Ofwat Interim Chief Executive, David Black has written an open letter to water customers telling them that If the regulator finds that water and wastewater companies have done wrong, Ofwat will hold them to account.

A new report is warning that that waterbodies and freshwater habitats across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are being devastated by poor water quality caused by agricultural waste, raw sewage, and pollution from abandoned mines.  

Thames Water Utilities Ltd has been fined £4 million and ordered to pay the prosecution costs of £90,713 for discharging an estimated half a million litres of raw sewage into the Seacourt and Hinksey streams in Oxford on 24 and 25 July 2016.

NGOs and MPs have welcomed the launch of the Environment Agency’s and Ofwat’s investigation into sewage treatment works – but criticised the regulators’ action as “long overdue” and for their failure to apologise for the long delay in taking action.

Southern Water is launching a task force to cut storm overflows by 80 per cent by 2030 as part of the company’s zero tolerance approach to pollution - customers have made it clear the use of storm releases is no longer acceptable.