The National Trust, Yorkshire Water and the Woodland Trust are working together to create 350 hectares of woodland, install thousands of natural flood management interventions and restore peatland. Two public meetings in April will give people chance to learn more about plans A partnership project between the National Trust, Yorkshire Water and the Woodland Trust […]
Almost half the 25,000 sewer blockages in Yorkshire last year were caused by wet wipes flushed down toilets, Yorkshire Water has said. The company said 11,946 of the 25,976 blockages were caused by wipes which did not break down in sewers. Yorkshire Water warned some wipes contained plastic which caused them to snag in pipes. […]
Yorkshire Water has agreed to donate a total of £400,000 to Yorkshire Wildlife Trust after polluting two watercourses in separate incidents, following investigations by the Environment Agency. The company breached its environmental permit with an unauthorised sewage discharge from Bellhouse Way Sewage Pumping Station, which polluted Holgate Beck in York, and two unauthorised sewage discharges […]
Yorkshire Water and tech firm Technolog have pledged to reduce the in-home and environmental risk and impact of sewer flooding across Yorkshire following a successful pilot project, Utility Week reports. The utility company – which supplies more than five million customers, the millions of people who visit Yorkshire each year, and some 140,000 businesses – […]
From Yorkshire Water The first nature-based wastewater treatment in Yorkshire has been completed at Yorkshire Water’s Clifton wastewater treatment works near Doncaster where sustainable wastewater treatment is now underway after the planting of 20,000 wetland plants. The site has been transformed into an integrated constructed wetland, with the clay in the ponds and the plants […]
Yorkshire Water has produced video and images of how some of its reservoirs could look in the next 50 years without action to conserve water. Read the article and see the images in the Yorkshire Evening Post
From Utility Week and Yorkshire Water Ben Aston, biodiversity specialist at Yorkshire Water, sheds light on the firm’s joint investment in pollinator superhighways and their impact on managing its water catchments. Yorkshire Water recently revealed that surveys are underway at six of its sites – Fewston, Swinsty, Thruscross, Embsay, Grimwith and Barden reservoirs – after […]
Following the industry agreement (through Water UK) to achieve net zero emissions from English water companies by 2030, several water companies have set out plans to get there. The plans highlight progress on energy efficiency, renewable generation, demand management, sequestration schemes and more, but also rely heavily on purchasing renewables and offsetting. Read the plans […]