SEPA’s first Water Scarcity Report for summer 2025 shows alerts for parts of northern Scotland
The first Water Scarcity Report of 2025 published by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency has already identified two regions at “Alert” level for potential shortages, while the majority of the country remains at “Early Warning” underscoring the need for vigilance across Scotland.
SAS Water Quality Report 2025 warns “sewage is being dumped into rivers and seas on scale that defies belief”
Campaigning organisation Surfers Against Sewage has today published its latest Water Quality Report, saying that the report reveals that “sewage is being dumped into our rivers and seas on a scale that defies belief.”
NI Water warns over risks wildfires can pose to reservoirs
Following five recent instances of fires in the Mourne Mountains, NI Water is highlighting the extreme risk of catastrophic damage wildfires bring to the environment, habitats, wildlife and drinking water.
Copernicus warns as temperatures continue to break records - warmest March in Europe and lowest-ever Arctic winter sea ice
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) is reporting the warmest March in Europe and lowest Arctic winter sea ice in its latest monthly climate bulletin reporting on the changes observed in global surface air and sea temperatures, sea ice cover and hydrological variables.
West Country’s biggest water users turn to disused china clay pits to create additional water sources
The West Country’s biggest water users are turning to their disused china clay pits and repurposing them to create additional water sources.
UK water stewardship programme for business launches
A new initiative is providing businesses with the expertise and tools to identify water savings across their sites, helping to achieve financial and environmental efficiencies whilst also tackling the UK’s water demand challenges.
Environment Agency data shows water companies' spills from storm overflows ran for record 3.61 million hours in 2024
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.
World Water Day 2025: Glacier Preservation
This year’s World Water Day, 22 March 2025, highlights the theme ‘Glacier Preservation’ and the International Water Association (IWA) is pleased to add its voice of support, connecting its work bringing together water professionals around the world to advance water security.
World Day for Glaciers sounds warning that glacier melt will unleash avalanche of cascading impacts
Today is the first ever World Day for Glaciers - and the alarm is sounding that accelerating glacier melt risks unleashing an avalanche of cascading impacts on economies, ecosystems and communities, not just in mountain regions but at global level.
Viewpoint - Thames Water documentary shines honest light on the sector’s issues
Specialist recruitment consultancy, Water by Murray, has praised Thames Water for its transparency in the BBC ‘Thames Water: Inside the Crisis’ documentary aired this week, but has warned that it could still be too little too late.
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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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Scottish Water completes £235m investment in two-way connection between drinking water networks
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