Yorkshire Water reduced the number of discharges into watercourses in Yorkshire by 24.5% in 2025 when compared to the previous 12 months.
Yorkshire Water is investing £3 million at its Wentworth Wastewater Treatment Works to increase capacity and improve performance.
Yorkshire Water is starting work next week on a £5.3 million investment at Church Street combined sewer overflow (CSO), Darton – the first of 92 storm discharge reduction projects across South Yorkshire over the next five years.
Yorkshire Water will begin upgrades at the Middleton sewage pumping station combined storm overflow (CSO) in Ilkley this week as part of a large-scale investment to improve bathing water quality in the river Wharfe.
Upgrades to infrastructure by Southern Water paired with innovative new technology and automated intelligence have dramatically reduced storm overflows from Terminus Road in Cowes, Isle of Wight.
Severn Trent and Staffordshire County Council have made significant strides in tackling ongoing flooding issues in Eccleshall.
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.
United Utilities’ ambitious £200 million investment plan to reduce spills across Windermere from storm overflows is moving at pace.
Yorkshire Water has begun work on a £9.7 million investment at Addingham sewage pumping station (SPS) and Low Mill Lane combined storm overflow (CSO) to reduce discharges into the river Wharfe.
Yorkshire Water is progressing its multi-million pound programme of works to tackle storm overflows to reduce discharges into local rivers and improve river water quality.
With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, then environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”
ERG, the leading supplier of odour control systems and industrial gas cleaning & thermal systems, has been awarded the coveted King’s Award for Enterprise.
Welsh Water’s new artificial intelligence-driven tool, ORAI, has been shortlisted for three categories at the prestigious British Data Awards 2026 – underscoring the company’s commitment to using cutting-edge technology to deliver better outcome for customers.
Barhale has completed work on two separate Rapid Action Taskforce Spills projects it is carrying out for Severn Trent.