Yorkshire Water is investing £4.8 million in its Dishforth wastewater treatment work to improve water quality in the river Swale and to expand the capacity of the site.

Welsh Water’s £27 million project to improve two wastewater treatment works and reduce their impact on the River Wye are about to go live – a year ahead of schedule.

United Utilities is investing £77.7 million at its wastewater treatment works in Burnley to help improve water quality in the River Ribble.

The Rivers Trust has published its State of Our Rivers 2024 Report – and the NGO is warning that “our rivers are in a desperate state of affairs” and “things haven’t improved" since its last report in 2021.

Yorkshire Water has completed a new 835-metre sewer underneath Ilkley to reduce the frequency and duration of discharges to the river Wharfe.

New City Hall analysis from the London Assembly shows instances of sewage flowing into London’s rivers in 2023 were almost five times the amount for the same period the previous year.

Households would be willing to pay up to £40 a year more on their water bill to use nature instead of man-made materials to improve river water quality and reduce the risk of flooding, according to new research by the Consumer Council for Water (CCW).

Northumbrian Water is getting ready to start work on the next phase of more than £28 million of investment to help improve water quality in a County Durham river.

The Environment Agency is urging river users to follow advice to stop the spread of the invasive signal crayfish after a population was found in the River Esk.

Severn Trent is partnering in a unique underground viewing gallery scheme which has revealed 27 separate species of fish found in the River Severn.