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, […]

26 Jun 2025

 Image description: A water pump with water pouring out as it is operated. Image by congerdesign from Pixabay   Water abstraction surges to record levels An investigation into licensing data by Watershed Investigations and the Guardian found that the volume of water taken from rivers and lakes for industrial or public consumption in England, known […]

26 Jun 2025

Image description: Gold statue of the blindfolded Lady of Justice, holding a sword in one hand and weighing scales in the other. Image by Sang Yun Cho / Pixabay   Environmental charity River Action has been granted permission by the High Court to proceed with a legal challenge against the water regulator, Ofwat, over how […]

26 Jun 2025

Image description: A row of 3D printers on a table. Image by Minku Kang on Unsplash   United Utilities forging path with 3D printfrastructure  United Utilities, a British water supply company, is accelerating the integration of 3D printing technologies into its operations and capital investment plans as part of the current AMP8 regulatory period. The […]