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 […]
27 Oct 2022
The first ever UK woodland natural flood management guide has been published. The Guide will enable the forest sector to play a stronger role in flood mitigation, which will increase the resilience of communities to flooding and reduce the financial impact of future floods. This is a new United Kingdom-wide guide outlining how […]
27 Oct 2022
As part of efforts to achieve zero pollution by 2050, the European Commission unveiled stricter rules to tackle air and water pollution. The European Commission is proposing stronger rules on surface and groundwater pollutants, and treatment of urban wastewater. “Day in and day out, we get new information about the degree to which public health is directly […]
25 Oct 2022
Unpaid labour, mental-health disorders, discrimination and abuse are rampant concerns in marine science, according to a survey of students and early-career researchers in the field. The following extract is from an article published in Nature and considers a research paper from Frontiers in Marine Science published in August of 2022. Of the 492 […]
25 Oct 2022
Exposure to spaces such as beaches leads to greater value being placed in natural settings, study finds. The research states that childhood days on the beach or messing around in rivers can have significant lasting benefits for our wellbeing in adulthood. The findings state that exposure to blue spaces – such as coasts, rivers and […]
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