Scottish Water’s sewer response teams – who clear about 36,000 blockages per year across the country – are adopting a new tactic to urge customers to “bin the wipes” that cause them.

Yorkshire Water has started work to reduce discharges from a storm overflow at Scalby Mills, near Scarborough, as it continues its work to improve bathing water quality in the town.

Anglian Water has announced a new Green Skills Academy at the College of West Anglia in Wisbech, with £2 million of overall funding from the water company and its alliance partners.

Yorkshire Water is investing £978k to replace almost 1km of the sewer in the East Yorkshire village of Laxton to improve resilience in the wastewater network.

South West Water yesterday lifted the boil water notice for a further 731 properties in the Summercombe and Chestnut Drive supply zone – but it still remains in place for another 678 properties on a different part of the network.

Northumbrian Water has started work on a £2.5 million project that will improve water quality in a North Yorkshire beck.

Four nature recovery projects will begin over the summer in Dearne Valley in South Yorkshire, to complement a wider programme of investment at Yorkshire Water’s wastewater treatment sites to improve water quality in the river Dearne.

Uisce Éireann is progressing work on a €31 million project to upgrade the wastewater infrastructure in Buncrana, Ballybofey and Stranorlar.