As public awareness of environmental issues grows, the spotlight is firmly on water quality. Water companies across the UK and Europe are under increasing pressure to alleviate their environmental impact and protect vital rivers, streams and watercourses. However, with this increased scrutiny on the water sector and its approach to pollution management, it is crucial […]
As part of efforts to achieve zero pollution by 2050, the European Commission unveiled stricter rules to tackle air and water pollution. The European Commission is proposing stronger rules on surface and groundwater pollutants, and treatment of urban wastewater. “Day in and day out, we get new information about the degree to which public health is directly […]
A viewpoint from Veronica Edmonds-Brown, Senior Lecturer in Aquatic Ecology, University of Hertfordshire. An extract from a piece first published in The Conversation: As a child swimming off the coast of south Devon in the 1960s, I believed the warm water passing through my legs was the Gulf Stream current. Now, as an adult, I […]
Water pollution isn’t really a very fashionable topic, in addition to those high profile fines and incidents there are a host of smaller incidents which continue to beg the question about management and investment practices for all sorts of businesses. Containment News is a mine of information on this ongoing problem: To subscribe to this FREE monthly […]
Containment News (or perhaps better put ‘lack of Containment’ News) is free monthly newsletter provides an utterly depressing litany of pollution incidents – over 25 is this issue alone – which have degraded the water environment and cost significant efforts to rectify and that shed light on the ongoing issues, many of which, with effective […]