21 Feb 2024
The Environment Agency has launched a campaign to highlight the risks of growing high-risk crops, which can lead to pollution and flooding, in the South West of England Parts of Cornwall and north and east Devon are considered at risk due to underlying soil types, slope and proximity to sensitive watercourses, roads and properties. Inadequate […]
21 Feb 2024
Thames Water has revised its downgraded some of its commitments to customers. The company has published a Service Commitment Plan update. It says that, despite some areas of performance improvement (including complaints and internal sewer flooding), the company’s original turnaround plan has not delivered the necessary improvements as quickly as hoped. The Guardian has picked […]
21 Feb 2024
A £5.6 million flood defence fund to help protect West Yorkshire’s communities and businesses from extreme weather has been signed off by regional leaders. The investment will be used to refurbish a flood channel in Leeds, redirect floodwater away from businesses and into the River Holme in Huddersfield, and create new areas of wetland to […]
21 Feb 2024
Southern Water has unveiled plans for a large wetland next to its treatment works in Staplefield. The wetland, is the size of two football pitches (3.2 acres) and will help treatment at the site and is a nature-based solution to reducing Phosphorus into nearby watercourses. How does the wetland work? Wetlands provide another way of […]
21 Feb 2024
The Welsh Parliament’s Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee has published a report making a series of recommendations to support improved performance at Welsh Water. Although there are mitigating factors including climate change challenges, the committee found the company to be “barely treading water when it comes to delivering for its customers and the environment. […]
14 Feb 2024
The Environment Secretary has announced that water bosses are set to be banned from receiving bonuses if a company has committed serious criminal breaches. Ofwat will be taking forward a consultation to define the criteria for a ban. That could include successful prosecution for a Category 1 or 2 pollution incident – such as causing […]
14 Feb 2024
The EU Copernicus Climate Change Service says January 2024 was the warmest January in the ERA5 data record, going back to 1940. The global surface air temperature was 13.14°C, which is 0.70°C above the 1991-2020 average for January and 0.12°C above the previous warmest January, in 2020. Taking into account the average of the last […]
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