Scottish Water was fined £6,500 at Alloa Sheriff Court on Monday for allowing chlorinated water to discharge from a reservoir into an Alva Burn, resulting in the death of over 1,000 fish.

Wolverhampton based Global Metal Finishers Limited has been fined £55,000 for making illegal discharges into Severn Trent Water’s sewer network.  The company has also been ordered to pay costs of nearly £9,000.

In a case brought by the Environment Agency this week, Severn Trent Water has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £2,659.63 in costs for polluting a Notthinghamshire watercourse.

Northern Ireland Water Limited (NIW) was fined £10,000 at Armagh Magistrates Court last Friday after pleading guilty to a charge of making a polluting discharge from its Tandragee Wastewater Treatment Works in Co Armagh.

Anglian Water has been fined £50,000 and required to pay £44,000 in costs after sewage contaminated a brook through an emergency overflow pipe killing more than 1,500 fish.

South West Water has been fined £150K for sewage pollution by Truro Crown Court and described by the Judge as “guilty of negligence.”

The Environment Agency has accepted an Enforcement Undertaking (EU) offer from Wessex Water Services Limited, in the first case where a civil sanction has been used for an offence committed by a water company.

Scottish Water was fined £12,000 last  Friday after the company pled guilty to a series of uncontrolled sewage discharges into the Purgatory Burn near Kirkintilloch, between 6 March and 25 June, 2013.

United Utilities has been fined £400k for what was described as a ‘ catastrophic failure’ in an incident at the firm’s Stockport Waste Treatment Works.

Severn Trent has been fined £25,000 and ordered to pay £10,267.05 in costs, along with a £15 victim surcharge, for pollution of the Messingham Reservoir.