The Welsh Assembly is introducing new regulations covering the whole of Wales to protect water quality from agricultural pollution.

Yorkshire Water has gone out to tender with a contract for specialist modelling and auditing services for its urban drainage, river flow and water quality framework worth an estimated £131 million.

An exciting new river restoration project designed to restore the Glazert Water to a more natural condition and minimise the likelihood of flooding in the River Kelvin Catchment downstream is one step closer.

Yorkshire Water is calling on farmers on land near the rivers Derwent, Wiske and Ouse to manage the use of slug control pesticides carefully to reduce the impact they could have on tap water quality.

The Environment Agency has issued detailed new guidance to water companies on environmental permits for storm overflows and emergency overflows – on issues ranging from screens, telemetry systems, pumping systems and connections for new developments.

Experts are testing cutting-edge techniques designed to enhance the monitoring of water worldwide as part of the €5 million MONOCLE project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme.

A record number of Cheshire farmers have bid for funding from United Utilities to grow cover crops over winter and help protect water quality.

Southern Water was fined a total of £65,000 and additional costs of £44,620.99 were awarded at a sentencing hearing in Newport Crown Court last Friday.

South West Water has completed a £21million project to improve water quality in the region’s rivers.

Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency has said it expects drinking water to comply with EU standards by 2020 - 16 years after the original compliance deadline.