Scottish Water backs new Nature Calls campaign to ban all wipes
In a major new campaign to help protect the environment, Scottish Water is asking the public to join forces to avoid sewer blockages, flooding, and pollution by consigning wipes to the bin.
Pollution incident from unauthorised discharge costs Northumbrian Water £165,000 in Enforcement Undertaking
Northumbrian Water has paid £165,000 to Tyne Rivers Trust after an unauthorised discharge led to a pollution incident near Newcastle.
Telegraph calls for “national plan to clean up Britain’s filthy rivers”
The Telegraph has launched a Clean Rivers campaign – saying the campaign is needed “to reverse the damage to our waterways before they succumb once again to the sort of pollution that took decades to eradicate.”
Water Futures Challenge seeks brightest engineering minds to stop UK water infrastructure reaching breaking point
Engineering students and junior engineers across the UK are being called upon to find radical ideas to tackle the nation’s growing water crisis as part of the Water Futures Challenge.
Three water companies to pay £847,000 in Enforcement Undertakings accepted by Environment Agency
Three water companies have agreed to pay a total of £847,000 in Enforcement Undertakings accepted by the Environment Agency during the period 10 September 2021 to 31 December 2021.
Raw sewage discharge costs Yorkshire Water nearly £250,000 in court
Yorkshire Water has been fined £233,000 and ordered to pay £18,766.06 costs and £170 Victim Surcharge after it admitted to being responsible for a sewage leak that led to the deaths of hundreds of fish in Tong Beck, near Bradford.
EA Chief on regulation after Brexit - “think differently, speak softly and carry an even bigger stick”
Environment Agency Chief Executive Sir James Bevan has said that regulators need to “think differently, speak softly, and carry an even bigger stick” in order to regulate better after Brexit - including "fines so large they would put a major dent in companies’ bottom lines and sentences that would put their bosses in jail."
County Durham watercourse pollution costs Northumbrian Water £274,000 in court
Northumbrian Water has been fined £240,000 for polluting a watercourse in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency. The company appeared at Newcastle Crown Court for sentence on yesterday after previously pleading guilty to two offences of polluting Coundon Burn on March 13 and 14, 2017.
‘Chemical cocktail’ of sewage, slurry and plastic polluting every river in England, new Parliamentary report warns
The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) is warning today that poor water quality in English rivers is a result of chronic underinvestment and multiple failures in monitoring, governance and enforcement - not a single river in England has received a clean bill of health for chemical contamination.
Somerset supplier to national supermarkets fined £29k for polluting watercourse plus £8k in costs
Somerset farm business Alvis Brothers Ltd, of Lye Cross Farm, Redhill, has been ordered to pay £37,184 for polluting a tributary of the Congresbury Yeo.