29 Oct 2020
Rivers Trust ‘The #EndSewagePollution Coalition, a cross sector group of organisations, are asking the public to demand their MP stand up for rivers and bring an end to sewage pollution which risks human health and damages precious water habitats. The campaign calls on MPs to support the Sewage (Inland Waters) Bill, a Private Members Bill […]
29 Oct 2020
Met Office: ‘A new set of projections from the Met Office reveal that extremes of rainfall and high temperatures are expected to exceed the extreme conditions already experienced in the UK, breaking records and placing increasing challenges on health, infrastructure and services. The latest addition to the set of UK Climate Projections (known as UKCP) […]
29 Oct 2020
On the 23rd September, the Unlocking the Severn project celebrated a major milestone – the first of our fish passes was opened to river fish! After years of bid development and a period of 16 months since the works commenced alongside Bevere weir, the fish pass, just north of Worcester has now been completed. The […]
21 Oct 2020
Creating Climate Resilient Places: a new direction for a nation Environment Agency ‘Speech by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive, Environment Agency at the Flood and Coast 2020 Digital Conference. Introduction I’m very pleased to be joining you all this morning for this exciting and innovative edition of Flood and Coast, and am privileged to be […]
21 Oct 2020
One can try and put a gloss on the actions taken over the last decade but the reality of this indicators report shows that we are not winning the battle to halt the declines in wildlife or habitats. There is an equally grim recently published report from Europe on this. Defra ‘There is coverage in today’s […]
21 Oct 2020
Defra ‘There has been coverage in the Guardian and ENDS Report of ongoing work by the Environment Agency to examine whether more than 50 sites that supply salad and vegetables to supermarkets and other businesses are discharging chemical pollution into rivers and streams. This follows an EA investigation into the salad supplier Bakkavor that found it was discharging […]
21 Oct 2020
A group of water companies have pledged to invest millions of pounds to protect the country’s chalk streams by reducing the amount of water they abstract from them for public drinking supply and cutting pollution. The pledge was made at an online Chalk Stream Summit organised by the Chalk Rivers Action Group (CRAG) and attended […]
21 Oct 2020
Ian McAulay, CEO of Southern Water, has expressed the company’s disappointment with its fall in the ratings in the Environment Agency’s annual report on the environmental performance of the nine water and sewerage companies in England released this week. The recent EA report shows four out of the nine companies are falling short of expected standards – […]
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