Yorkshire Water has broken ground on its £1.5 billion storm overflow investment project between 2025 and 2030, with the first scheme starting in Leeds this week.

Scottish Water has published its annual data on overflows from the public waste water system in line with regulatory requirements and the company’s commitment to sharing more information on its performance.

Scottish Water is progressing a £2.5 million flood alleviation project in Greenock with the imposition of road restrictions on the major A8 road, which floods regularly during extreme weather, for up to three weeks.

Scottish Water has set out its plans to install sensors on a number of its 3,614 Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) within its 50,000km of sewer network in Scotland.

Yorkshire Water is expanding its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to predict blockages within its sewer network, in a bid to reduce pollution risks in the region.

The Storm Overflows Taskforce established last year to tackle river pollution has agreed a new objective to prevent damage from storm overflows. 

Defra has written to the Chief Executives of the UK water companies telling them that companies will need to introduce monitoring for the vast majority of their combined sewer overflows (CSOs) by 2020.

The Environment Agency has started its annual water quality tests at England’s beaches.

Wessex Water has started work on a £26m scheme to improve water quality at Weston-super-Mare.

A multi-million pound scheme to clean up two of east Lancashire's main rivers is getting underway.