10 Jul 2025

Image description: A drak green hosepipe stored away in a garden. Image by VariousPhotography / Pixabay   Yorkshire Water is introducing a hosepipe ban affecting more than five million people, that come into effect from Friday (11 July). It marks the first hosepipe ban to be declared in the UK this year. Yorkshire Water said […]

10 Jul 2025

Image description: The River Seine in Paris, flowing in front of the Eiffel Tower. Image by Jenny Frost / Unsplash   The River Seine reopened to public swimmers in Paris on Saturday July 5, marking the first time since 1923 that bathers could take a dip in the iconic waterway following a years-long cleanup effort. […]

10 Jul 2025

Natural Resources Wales’s (NRW) Four Rivers for LIFE project has completed an additional fish pass on the Llanwrda Dulais, an important salmon and trout spawning tributary of the River Tywi. This is the third fish pass improvement scheme to be installed on this stretch of river, meaning more than eight miles will now be accessible […]

03 Jul 2025

Image description: A close up shot of a striped blue school tie and navy blazer, with a yellow prefect badge in view. Image by ROBIN WORRALL / Unsplash   Potential ban on PFAS and plastic in UK school uniform The children’s wellbeing and schools bill, which applies mainly to England and Wales and is at […]

03 Jul 2025

Image: A beach cleaning bag with the Surfers Against Sewage logo, lying on a sandy beach. Image by Surfing Croyde / Unsplash   Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) have released the results of a representative poll conducted on adults in England and found “52% of those surveyed don’t trust the Government to put in place the […]

03 Jul 2025

Image description: Water being poured from a bottle into a glass. Image by Pixabay   Italian court delivers first PFAS contamination conviction In the Italian court on Thursday sentenced executives at a chemical plant to prison terms of up to 17 years for polluting water used by hundreds of thousands of people with Per- and […]

03 Jul 2025

Image description: An aerial view of a sewage treatment works. Photo by Patrick Federi / Unsplash   Britain’s Southern Water has secured up to 1.2 billion pounds ($1.65 billion) of equity from a consortium led by Australia’s Macquarie Asset Management and agreed to refinancing terms with creditors to avert a debt crisis. Southern Water, which […]

03 Jul 2025

Image description: aerial view of sewage treatment works. Image by Tom Fisk / Pexels.   More than half of Thames Water’s 351 sewage treatment works do not have the capacity to treat the sewage they receive, according to independent research published by the Oxford Rivers Improvement Campaign (ORIC).  Using data secured through Environmental Information Requests, […]