A legal action against South West Water over sewage pollution in Exmouth, Budleigh Salterton and Lympstone has been expanded to include coastal towns across Devon and Cornwall.

A new report from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) says that the River Thames – a river that was once declared ‘biologically dead’ - is ringing in 2026 with a new lease of life - although experts warn that rising water temperatures and pollution are threatening the hard-won resurrection.

Campaigning organisation Surfers Against Sewage has today published its latest Water Quality Report, saying that the report reveals that “sewage is being dumped into our rivers and seas on a scale that defies belief.”

Severn Trent has agreed to pay £600,000 to the Trent Rivers Trust following a pollution incident - the payment follows the Environment Agency's investigation into the pollution of a Leicestershire brook by the water company.

Tomorrow the Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) 12-day UK road trip in a bespoke double-decker bus to take the sewage debate to election hotspots will complete its journey in the SAS hometown of St. Agnes in Cornwall.

The Chair of the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.(EFRA ) has this morning written to the CEOs of United Utilities and South West Water (SWW) to raise the Committee’s serious concerns over the recent incidents involving sewage being illegally pumped into Lake Windermere, and the parasite outbreak in the water network in Devon.

Warren Beere, Condition Assessment Engineer at Xylem, takes a look at how taking a data-led approach to rising main management has a key role to play in preventing sewage and wastewater pollution.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched a new consultation on the Government’s proposal to expand the Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan to cover all coastal and estuarine waters.

The Government has published its Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan setting stringent new targets to protect people and the environment. This will require water companies to deliver the largest infrastructure programme in water company history.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has confirmed it is planning to expand storm overflow reduction targets even further to tackle sewage pollution.