The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has announced it is investigating the Department for Infrastructure (DfI), the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) and the Utility Regulator over the regulation of sewage discharges into Belfast Lough.

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has rejected a case brought against six UK water companies in September 2024 for allegedly misleading regulators about the number of discharges of untreated sewage made into rivers, lakes, coastal areas, and other waterways causing damage to the environment.

Environment Secretary Steve Reed will today pledge to ‘clean up Windermere’ setting out the Government’s support for the long-term ambition of ‘only rainwater’ entering England’s largest lake and end sewage discharges.

Severn Trent has announced that it has completed 1,500 engineering projects ahead of schedule and has now unveiled further plans to fast-track the delivery of another 600 improvement projects to reduce the use of storm overflows.

Northumbrian Water is investing £840,000 in an environmental protection scheme in Bishop Auckland by reducing spills from the sewer network.

Untreated sewage discharges and unpermitted outfalls have caused dangerously high levels of bacteria to be found at multiple sites across a nine-mile stretch of the River Roding, London’s third longest river, a new study by environmental charity Thames21 and The River Roding Trust has found.

Today marks the start of a four day hearing at the Competition Appeals Tribunal in a case brought by Professor Carolyn Roberts against six water companies for allegedly misleading regulators about the number of discharges of untreated sewage made into rivers, lakes, coastal areas, and other waterways causing damage to the environment.

Yorkshire Water has begun work on a £900,000 scheme to reduce discharges from its storm overflow at the Marton-le-Moor wastewater treatment works.

An overwhelming majority (82%) of the British public support the next government setting up an independent public inquiry into the discharge of raw sewage into rivers and seas, according to new polling data from YouGov and Surfers Against Sewage (SAS).

Supreme Court judges have ruled unanimously against United Utilities in an appeal case about sewage discharges brought by Manchester Ship Canal Company.