13 Apr 2021
The Guardian ‘The prime minister’s green rhetoric has been accompanied by a series of actions that have left many observers aghast, and that appear contrary to leading an international push to net zero. These include: The green light for a Cumbrian coalmine, which provoked a months-long rowthat ended with the promise of a public inquiry New licences […]
13 Apr 2021
Defra in pre-tender engagement for £120m national property flood resilience framework The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched a pre-tender engagement exercise on behalf of the Environment Agency for a new framework for the provision of services and works relating to property flood resilience. Following the introduction of the Property Flood Resilience […]
13 Apr 2021
Angling Trust ‘A new report, Salmonid and fisheries statistics for England and Wales 2019, by the Environment Agency highlights the growing concern on the status of salmon populations in our rivers. In England & Wales, no rivers were categorised as being ‘not at risk’, with all 22 principal salmon rivers in Wales categorised at ‘at risk’ […]
06 Apr 2021
EA ‘The Environment Agency has published the Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) data for 2020, which tracks the operation of storm overflows. This data has always been available by information request, but following the commitment made by the Storm Overflows Taskforce to increase the transparency and accessibility of this data, it’s now available on GOV.UK. This year […]
06 Apr 2021
The Rivers Trusts ‘Data released today by the Environment Agency (EA) shows that storm overflows (SOs) discharged untreated sewage and storm water more than 400,000 times, and for more than 3 million hours during 2020 in England. This is a shocking volume of untreated contaminated wastewater reaching our rivers and shows that our current approach […]
06 Apr 2021
Met Office 11th March Record-breaking rainfall like that seen on 3 October 2020 could be 10 times more likely by 2100. A new study by scientists in the Met Office Hadley Centre has found that days with extreme rainfall accumulations will become more frequent through the century. The research used the record rainfall observed on 3 […]
06 Apr 2021
CCW’s Strategy for 2021-24 ‘We’ve published our Strategy for 2021-24, which sets out CCW’s mission, strategic objectives and campaigns for the next three years. We want to continue to improve and strengthen our organisation so that we’re best placed to secure a fair deal for water consumers, now and in the future. We’ve refocused our strategy […]
06 Apr 2021
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