The Environment Agency has lifted the restrictions on bathing in waters along the Fylde coast - the restrictions were introduced following  major sewage discharges after a 9 metre-deep pipe fracture at United Utilities' Fleetwood wastewater treatment works.

The University of Birmingham has launched a new Centre for Environmental Research and Justice will combine expertise in science and law to offer solutions that will ultimately protect human health and the environment from exposure to hazardous chemical pollutants.

NASA Harvest says the catastrophic collapse of Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam which supplies water to large areas of the Black Sea region’s most productive agricultural lands has resulted in the disconnection of three of the four major canal inlets vital for farm irrigation.

The GMB union has called for an urgent public inquiry into sewage dumping and ‘gross mismanagement’ of the entire water industry.