Scottish Water has completed its £3 million Improving Urban Waters project to help prevent sewer related debris from entering the Water of Leith.

Yorkshire Water has broken ground on its fifth storm overflow discharge reduction project in Leeds, on Wyther Lane in Kirkstall.

South West Water has started work on the next phase of a £12 million project in Sidmouth to improve the town’s sewage network, reduce the use of storm overflows and protect the quality of its bathing waters.

Southern Water’s ambitious £170 million programme to reduce storm overflows in Portsmouth Harbour is entering a new phase, with major works now beginning in Fareham and Havant.

Environmental Standards Scotland (ESS) has written to Scottish Water and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) to welcome their commitment to work together to develop a new analytical tool to identify instances where storm overflows in Scotland may be spilling in dry weather.

Scottish Water is nearing completion of a £3 million project to help prevent wet wipes and other sewer related debris from entering the Water of Leith at Murrayfield in Edinburgh.

Southern Water has begun vital sewer sealing work in Sittingbourne as part of its wider work to reduce storm overflows.

Dwr Cymru Welsh Water has officially opened its pioneering £13 million reedbed and wetland storm overflow at Pont-y-felin in Torfaen – the first project of its kind in the UK.

Innovative nature-based and engineering solutions designed to cut storm overflows into Chichester Harbour are set for a series of Hampshire and West Sussex communities.

Yorkshire Water is starting work next week on a £5.3 million investment at Church Street combined sewer overflow (CSO), Darton – the first of 92 storm discharge reduction projects across South Yorkshire over the next five years.