Environment Agency Wales has been advising local businesses at the Tir Llwyd Industrial Estate how to avoid polluting the River Gele.

Anglian Water has been fined a total of £22,000 and ordered to pay full costs of £4,489 after a rising main burst twice in seven months ruining crops both times.

Britain’s largest water company, Thames Water Utilities Limited, has been ordered to pay more than £10,000 after pleading guilty to one offence of causing silt to enter a tributary of the Bydemill Brook in Wiltshire in 2008.

The Environment Agency has prosecuted Southern Water for causing sewage to enter the Bevern Stream at Barcombe in East Sussex during September last year.

South West Water has been ordered to pay £11,875 in fines and costs after sewage overflowed from a North Devon pumping station into a tributary of the River Taw. The case was brought by the Environment Agency.

On Wednesday 27 August 2008, FormFin Limited of  Merse Road, Redditch pleaded guilty at Redditch Magistrates Court to polluting the Blacksoils Brook and River Arrow.

Hundreds of trout have died in a major pollution incident on the Pill River in West Somerset.

The government is seeking feedback on proposed amendments to the Groundwater Regulations 1998.

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.

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.