27 Mar 2025
A new report from Public First has urged the Chancellor to commit at least £1.5 Bn annually on flood defences in the spending review, with no current funding commitment from the Labour government on flood defences beyond April 2026. Image description: A house and powerlines submerged in water. Image by Wes Warren The […]
27 Mar 2025
Raw sewage was released into England’s rivers and seas for a record 3.61 million hours last year as Labour calls the new figures “disgraceful”. The Rivers Trust analysis of Environment Agency spill data counted 450,398 discharges. While the number of sewage spills by water companies marginally decreased compared to 2023, each spill lasted longer […]
27 Mar 2025
Image description: Running water coming out of three faucets. Image by Pixabay. Hundreds of hectares of peatland is being restored in a project which aims to prevent Glasgow’s tap water turning brown during extreme rain. Loch Katrine, in the heart of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, supplies water to 1.3 million homes […]
27 Mar 2025
Image description: Two laptops with charts and reports. Image by Photo by Nataliya Vaitkevich / Pexels. The record-breaking eighth asset management period (AMP8) comes at a critical time for the water sector in England and Wales. Next month AMP8 will begin its roll-out, which includes a doubling of capital works, while consumer bills are […]
27 Mar 2025
Image description: Overlapping pound notes. Image by Pixabay. Ofwat, the UK’s water regulator, has announced bonuses for water bosses in England could be banned this year for companies that spill sewage, break the law or mismanage their finances. New powers under the Water (Special Measures) Act mean the regulator can ban bonuses of water […]
27 Mar 2025
Image description: Blue car sharply turning, spraying mud and water. Photo by Nikky Almon / Pexels. Data obtained by ENDS through Freedom of Information legislation has revealed the locations of outfalls which are classed in the National Highway’s Water Quality Plan as having a potentially ‘high risk’ or ‘very high risk’ of channelling polluted […]
25 Mar 2025
One of the biggest challenges facing the scaling of marine renewable energy is identifying the most feasible and economically viable locations for ocean current energy projects. A pioneering study from the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University using more than 30 years of measured data from NOAA’s Global Drifter Program (GDP) […]
25 Mar 2025
Image description: The torso of a person on the beach holding a plastic bag with litter in it. The person is wearing a grey tshirt, white shorts and plastic gloves. Image by Chaiyan Anuwatmongkolchai from Pixabay New evidence from the State of our Beaches report by the Marine Conservation Society revealed the amount of […]
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