The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and Scottish Water are continuing to actively work with all relevant partners including Fife Council, NHS Fife and Fife Coast and Countryside Trust in response to the ongoing localised pollution pressure affecting the Kinghorn Burn, to protect public health and the environment.

Wild swimmers in Shrewsbury can now make better-informed decisions about river safety through an expanded regional pilot project, which monitors river water quality on a daily basis.

Scottish Water has become the first water company in the UK, and one of the first in Europe, to be awarded accreditation for a new method of detecting viruses in water.

The latest techniques in environmental DNA (eDNA) research are being used by United Utilities and Cardiff University to help maintain high quality drinking water for the North West and understand the causes of taste and odour issues.

Yorkshire Water and Aqua Enviro have developed a ground-breaking metagenomics project, which will be used to monitor and control performance at wastewater treatment works during conversion to Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal (EBPR) configuration.

Yorkshire Water has completed its investigations into the water quality issue in Thorne and Moorends in Doncaster, where a Boil Water Notice has been in place since Saturday - E.coli and a related group of bacteria were found in samples that were collected during the incident.