09 Oct 2025
Image description: Water spraying from a hose. Photo by Oliver Li on Unsplash The Environment Agency has issued 17 drought permits to Yorkshire Water in response to ongoing dry conditions affecting water supplies across the region. As reported by the UK Government, the permits will allow Yorkshire Water to take additional water from rivers […]
02 Oct 2025
Image description: Aerial image of sewage treatment facility. Image by Photo by Ivan Bandura on Unsplash UK Pennon group eyeing profitability for 2025-26 South West Water owner Pennon has reported a “strong return to profitability” despite higher costs borne during the summer drought and the UK’s hottest summer on record. The FTSE 250 water […]
02 Oct 2025
Image description: A water pipe flowing into a river. Photo by Jacob Antony on Unsplash Internal documents and data shared with BBC News have highlighted that the Environment Agency (EA) has been struggling to monitor incidents of serious pollution. An internal EA document from this year states that all potentially serious incidents should be […]
02 Oct 2025
Image description: A water glass held up by a hand. Image by Manki Kim on Unsplash. Thames Water’s desalination plant, officially known as the Thames Gateway, has cost more than half a billion pounds since 2010 and has run only five times. Over 15 years it has delivered 7.2bn litres of drinking water, equating […]
25 Sep 2025
Image description: A metal watering can pouring out water. Photo by David Ballew on Unsplash Despite reservoirs in Yorkshire receiving record rainfall and seeing the largest weekly rise in over 30 years, Yorkshire Water’s hosepipe ban could last into the new year. Dave Kaye, director of water for Yorkshire Water, said that while reservoir […]
25 Sep 2025
Image description: wild swimmers doing front crawl in a body of water. Photo by Johanna Steppan on Unsplash A new report from the London assembly has recommended ten new wild swimming locations should be created in London, to accelerate a clean-up of the capital’s waterways and increase nature access. The investigation, titled “Swimmable rivers: […]
25 Sep 2025
Image description: Housing construction in progress. Photo by Ernie Journeys on Unsplash The UK government has announced new measures aimed at improving water efficiency in new homes, a move expected to reduce household bills and support the construction of new housing developments. According to a statement from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural […]
25 Sep 2025
Image description: cars stuck in traffic.Photo by Nabeel Syed on Unsplash After six years, Brighton’s Wild Park rainscape, formed of a vegetated swale linked to four planted basins, is almost completed. The Aquifer Project, formed in 2016 to protect the chalk aquifer, secured £1.79m funding from National Highways to build the rainscape with the […]
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