A London company responsible for supplying jet fuel at Heathrow Airport was fined £40,000 last week and ordered to pay the Environment Agency in excess of £14,000 for its costs, after severely polluting groundwater beneath the airport, with at least 139,000 litres of Jet A-1 aviation fuel.

The Chartered Institution for Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) is calling for the Government to develop a “shadow price” for water to ensure that the sustainable management of water fully reflects the value of water, not just for comsumers but also for the environment and the ecosystem services it provides.

The Competition Commission’s (CC) recent findings on the appeal by Bristol Water Plc against Ofwat’s decision on the prices it charges its customers raises questions in the event of potential applications by other water companies for interim price increases between now and 2015.

Barratt Homes have been ordered to pay more than £13,400 in fines and costs after sewage escaped from a housing development and polluted a stream close to the Tamar Valley.

For more than three hours an Anglian Water sewage treatment works discharged sewage into the River Wid in Essex killing hundreds of fish and hundreds of invertebrates, a court heard last Friday.

Despite torrential rain at times, 95% of Scottish bathing waters finished the 2010 summer season having achieved at least mandatory bathing water quality or better, and overall only 1.4% of tested samples were below European standards.

A Berkshire property company has been ordered to pay more than £20,500 for breaching its consent to discharge treated sewage into a Thatcham stream.

The independent Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) has questioned the Ministerial Direction introducing a new requirement that reservoir undertakers must produce on-site flood plans.

A Surrey transport company has been ordered to pay a total of £6,867 after pleading guilty to polluting a stretch of the River Thames with oil.

The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) has launched a new consultation on establishing a framework for partnership working that will ultimately support the production of flood risk management plans and how flooding issues in Scotland are tackled.