Organisations from across the South Tyne area have been brought together by 22 projects to improve the local environment and river health in local communities, led by Northumbrian Water.

A Yorkshire Water project in Ben Rhydding to reduce the number of discharges into the river Wharfe from a storm overflow has completed, helping to improve the quality of the watercourse.

The Greater Cambridge Chalk Stream Project, funded by Cambridge City Council, Cambridge Water (part of South Staffordshire Plc), Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA), Anglian Water and the Hobson Conduit Trust, marks a major milestone in the protection and restoration of some of the UK’s most fragile and rare ecosystems.

Northumbrian Water has invested £3 million in refurbishing four clarifiers – which remove sediment and other impurities from the raw water at the start of the treatment process – at its Warkworth Water Treatment Works (WTW) in Northumberland.

South Staffs Water has appointed Sara Vaughan as its new Independent Non-Executive Director and forthcoming Chair of the Board. 

As Anglian Water prepare for the changes and challenges the next five years will bring for the water industry – including its largest ever capital programme of more than £11 billion - Richard Lee, Anglian Water’s Head of Engineering at its @one Alliance reflects on some of its previous projects that have made a huge difference to the communities they serve.