The organisers of Glastonbury Festival, the world’s biggest music festival, have been ordered to pay £31,000 in fines and costs for pollution offences involving human sewage.

The European Environment Agency (EEA) and the European Commission have published the annual report assessing bathing water quality across Europe in 2015 and indicating where it is expected to be good in 2016.

Anglian Water has officially marked the 50^th anniversary of the opening of Grafham Reservoir and a new £28 million storage reservoir and pumping station with a visit from His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh who first opened the Reservoir fifty years ago.

United Utilities has launched a Priority Services scheme to help struggling water customers in managing debt, support for customers facing mental health issues or struggling with ‘life events’ such as divorce, job loss or bereavement and services for customers who have physical disabilities. 

Yorkshire Water's retail business arm Kelda Water Services Retail, in partnership with Loop Customer Management, have appointed Echo Managed Services to deliver the billing and customer relationship management solution for its commercial customers.

North Yorkshire County Council's planning committee has given the go-ahead for Third Energy to undertake fracking for shale gas in the vicinity of Kirby Misperton.

Severn Trent Water has awarded a six year contract for the repair and refurbishment of water process pumps worth up to £9 million.

NI Water has extended the deadline to tender for a contract for repair and maintenance services worth up to £3 million until 3^rd June 2016.