03 Nov 2022
A joint UK Parliament Committee has reported on the country’s critical national infrastructure and its preparedness for increasing storm events. The report says that the UK’s critical national infrastructure (CNI) is very vulnerable to extreme weather and other effects of climate change, such as sea level rises. Major power outages, landslides onto roads, buckling train […]
27 Oct 2022
United Utilities has started work on an £8.9 million project to improve the water quality of the River Douglas around Adlington in Lancashire, WaterBriefing reported. The North West water company will be constructing a 2,500 cubic metre detention tank to help reduce the number of the spills from storm overflows into the Douglas during periods […]
27 Oct 2022
A new project to create a new channel of the River Thames and restore long-lost wildlife habitat has been completed. The 450-metre watercourse in West Oxfordshire bypasses a manmade weir and will enable fish to swim along a 30km stretch of the Thames and spawn for the first time in more than a century. […]
27 Oct 2022
Catchment Sensitive Farming advice is now available to farmers, land managers and growers across England following the expansion of the programme. Local Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) advisers provide confidential on-farm support and advice across the farming community to encourage uptake of new and existing agricultural schemes and help farmers comply with regulation to deliver environmental […]
27 Oct 2022
In a joint letter to water and wastewater company CEOs, David Black, Chief Executive of Ofwat and Emma Clancy, Chief Executive of CCW, have asked for more support to be given to customers. The letter acknowledges that while water bills have been rising below inflation in recent years, many customers already feel their water bill […]
27 Oct 2022
Tens of thousands of new homes face being delayed or scrapped because of river pollution that could cost the economy £16bn, a BBC investigation has found. Tougher rules on phosphate river pollution targets have been brought in – but that could affect 100,000 new-build homes in England and Wales. Experts say more phosphate, found in […]
27 Oct 2022
PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances), a group of more than 4,700 fully synthetic compounds that are widely used in industrial and manufacturing processes and found in many consumer products, persist through wastewater treatment at levels that may impact the long-term feasibility of “beneficial reuse of treated wastewater,” according to a study conducted by researchers and recently […]
27 Oct 2022
The Guardian has reported that the government’s efforts to protect UK rivers have been labelled an “abject failure” after two-thirds of farms in Devon were found to be causing pollution when inspected by the Environment Agency. Between 2016 and 2020, the agency visited more than 100 cattle farms in north Devon to check levels of compliance with […]
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