An £11 million upgrade completed at Yorkshire Water’s Garforth wastewater treatment works, Allerton Bywater, is helping to improve water quality in Sheffield Beck.

Yorkshire Water’s £15.9 million investment to improve river water quality by upgrading five wastewater treatment works across East Yorkshire has been completed.

Wessex Water is starting work today on the next phase of river enhancement works for the River Anton along Western Avenue in Andover.

Yorkshire Water, in collaboration with AI specialists UnifAI Technology, has started an innovative research project that uses AI modelling to provide real-time water quality predictions at designated bathing water sites across the county.

Yorkshire Water and River Holme Connections are working together on a pilot scheme to relaunch the national Yellow Fish scheme to the region, in a bid to reduce pollution of rivers, streams, canals, and lakes.

What has been described as the UK’s largest ever environmental legal claim against industrial chicken production firms Avara Foods, its subsidiary Freemans of Newent Litd and Dwr Cymru Cyfyngedig Welsh Water for polluting the Wye catchment reaches the High Court today.

The Government’s first Land Use Framework for England says that by 2050 higher water quality in rivers and groundwaters, and fewer pollutants entering water courses from fields, roads and homes, will translate to lower treatment costs for water companies than they would otherwise be.

Water UK, the organisation that represents all of the UK water companies, is calling for the self-monitoring regime to be scrapped.

The Environment Agency and the University of Stirling have published a report on the links between phosphorus concentrations and ecology in English rivers.

Thames Water’s £20 million upgrade to the Chesham Sewage Treatment Works that has cut phosphorous levels by 85 per cent has already had “a measurable impact on water quality” in the River Chess.