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.

Environmental charity Thames21 has launched a new online dashboard that – for the first time – brings together key datasets on river health gathered by citizen scientists across London and the Thames Basin.

Anglian Water's @one Alliance has finished work at their recycling centre (WRC) in King's Lynn to safeguard the local environment and protect the community from flooding.

A project commissioned by the Environment Agency’s (EA) that captures genetic information from microbial biofilm communities in English rivers has developed a new DNA-based dataset which will be used to help identify new microbial indicators of ecosystem health.

The system for assessing the health of England’s rivers states just 14% are in good ecological health but an independent report for Defra says this masks improvements in freshwater biodiversity – and has proposed an alternative monitoring standard.