Environment Agency and Wild Trout Trust partnership extended until 2025
The Environment Agency has extended its partnership with the Wild Trout Trust until 2025 to provide advice and carry out practical work with angling clubs, landowners and other partners.
Thames Water commits to package of river health improvements
Thames Water CEO Sarah Bentley has announced a package of measures to improve river quality and reduce sewage discharges at this week’s annual Rivers Trust’s Spring Conference.
Anglian Water and Severn Trent announce pledges to transform river water quality across their regions
Anglian Water has joined forces with Severn Trent to announce a Get River Positive Plan: five pledges to transform river water quality across their regions.
Ofwat Chief orders water companies to spell out plans to protect river health
Ofwat has today called on water companies to spell out plans for how they will cut the harm they cause to rivers in England.
South East Rivers Trust explains how Downstream Defender technology protects waterways & wildlife in Richmond Park
Hear Dr Samantha Hughes, Senior Water and Land Stewardship Officer at the South East Rivers Trust, part of the Beverley Brook Catchment Partnership project, explain how Hydro International's Downstream Defender technology is helping to improve the status of Beverley Brook which runs through Richmond Park.
Telegraph calls for “national plan to clean up Britain’s filthy rivers”
The Telegraph has launched a Clean Rivers campaign – saying the campaign is needed “to reverse the damage to our waterways before they succumb once again to the sort of pollution that took decades to eradicate.”
Northumbrian Water - phosphorus removal work at 27 sites starts with £1.7m upgrade at Cookhall SWT
Northumbrian Water is starting the roll out of improvement works at 27 sites to meet tougher phosphorous discharge consent requirements from April 2025 with a £1.7 million upgrade at its Crookhall Sewage Treatment Works.
Government accepts EAC recommendations to improve water quality in rivers and hold water companies to account
The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has welcomed today’s publication of the Government’s Strategic Policy Statement (SPS) guidance to Ofwat.
Sewage pollution - Ofwat warns water companies not to "hide behind regulation or say they can't do anything" until PR24
John Russell, Senior Director of Strategy, Finance, and Infrastructure at Ofwat, has warned the water companies that it is “not acceptable to hide behind regulation or say they can't do anything until the next price review” to tackle current levels of pollution and wastewater discharges from their networks.
‘Chemical cocktail’ of sewage, slurry and plastic polluting every river in England, new Parliamentary report warns
The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) is warning today that poor water quality in English rivers is a result of chronic underinvestment and multiple failures in monitoring, governance and enforcement - not a single river in England has received a clean bill of health for chemical contamination.