Water company efforts to protect the environment have been described as ‘simply unacceptable’ in an Environment Agency (EA) report published today with only one of the major water and sewage companies in England performing at the level expected.

A landmark High Court ruling has boosted Thames Water’s efforts to tackle the major issue of misconnections, a hidden problem polluting rivers and streams across London and further afield.

A cutting edge bio-technology system is being tested by Highways England to improve water quality around a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Devon.

A court has ruled that more should have been done by South West Water to prevent history repeating itself when raw sewage spilled onto a popular beach in 2017.

Two Nottinghamshire farming companies have been fined a total of £28,800 for causing serious pollution to a pond through the discharge of maize silage effluent from Sutton Grange farm in Sutton-cum-Lound near Retford.

Yorkshire Water has offered a £200,000 restorative charity donation to resolve an investigation into a sewage pollution event at the Pissy Beds Drain near Hatfield Colliery.

Severn Trent Water has been fined £500,000 for discharging thousands of gallons of raw sewage from its sewer network onto land at Sutton Park in the West Midlands.

MPs who sit on the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee are warning that the fashion industry is depleting the world’s water resources, polluting rivers and other surface waters with chemicals and adding to ocean microplastic pollution.

New scorecards, analysing how successful water company plans for the upcoming AMP7 2020-25 investment programme are likely to be in protecting and improving the environment, have been published by Blueprint for Water, part of the Wildlife and Countryside Link nature coalition, the largest environment coalition in England.

Following a pollution incident in south-east London which saw the escape of sewage from a blocked sewer in 2013, Thames Water will give £80,000 to the South East Rivers Trust to make improvements to a local river.