17 Apr 2025
Image description: Rowing boats stowed away. Image credit Antonio Babuli/ Pexels. The iconic Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race took place on Sunday 13 April. However, pre-race excitement was overshadowed by results from water-quality testing, which revealed levels of E. coli bacteria almost three times above the Environment Agency’s threshold for “poor” bathing waters, along […]
17 Apr 2025
Image description: The Roman Baths museum in Bath. Image credit Rachel Claire / Pexels. The University of Bath has opened the UK’s first pilot wastewater monitoring centre which it says could help avoid future pandemics. The early-warning public health surveillance system is based on detecting traces of chemicals and biological markers found in water. […]
10 Apr 2025
Image description: Water being boiled on a stove. Image by Anna Shvets / Pexels. South West Water owner Pennon has revealed that a major water contamination incident in Devon last year has contributed to a cost hit of £36 million in “reshaping and transformation” costs. Pennon was forced to add a “triple layer of […]
10 Apr 2025
Image description: Wide shot of the houses of Parliament. Image by Dominika Gregušová / Pexels. The UK Parliamentary Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) inquiry is currently considering whether enough is being done to address the risks of PFAs in the UK and whether research institutions and the Environment Agency are equipped to detect and […]
08 Apr 2025
Image description: A plastic bottle, polystyrene and driftwood on a sandy beach. Image by Catherine Sheila/ Pexels. Not a single inch of the Mediterranean is clean A new study has shone a light on one of the highest concentrations of deep-sea litter ever detected at the deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea. Scientists captured […]
03 Apr 2025
In one of the largest syntheses of the human impacts on biodiversity ever conducted worldwide, a team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) and the University of Zurich looked at terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats, as well as including all groups of organisms, including microbes, fungi, plants, invertebrates, fish, birds […]
03 Apr 2025
Published just ahead of World Water Day by WWF and GlobeScan, The Future Water Agenda: How water can lead the way for sustainability and collective action details the top global concerns. Water pollution is viewed as a ‘very serious’ issue by 63% of people. Photo: Rebecca Bliklen Three other water-related issues – depletion […]
03 Apr 2025
River being given legal rights A district council in England has passed a motion to grant its local river the rights to flow freely, to be free from pollution and to enjoy its native biodiversity. The move by Lewes District Council in East Sussex to recognise the fundamental rights of the River Ouse is the […]
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