14 Aug 2025
Image description: A field of dry grass. Image by Alexandre Debiève / Unsplash The National Drought Group met this week with the current water shortfall situation in England now defined as a “nationally significant incident” according to the Environment Agency. The agency reported that five of its fourteen operational regions are already in drought, […]
10 Jul 2025
Image description: a red tractor ploughing a field, with white birds surrounding it. Image by Tian Dayong / Unsplash. The Guardian has broken a story on an Environment Agency (EA) insider blowing the whistle on what they describe as a “deliberate and ongoing cover-up” of the public health and environmental dangers of spreading sewage […]
10 Jul 2025
Image description: A drak green hosepipe stored away in a garden. Image by VariousPhotography / Pixabay Yorkshire Water is introducing a hosepipe ban affecting more than five million people, that come into effect from Friday (11 July). It marks the first hosepipe ban to be declared in the UK this year. Yorkshire Water said […]
10 Jul 2025
Image description: The River Seine in Paris, flowing in front of the Eiffel Tower. Image by Jenny Frost / Unsplash The River Seine reopened to public swimmers in Paris on Saturday July 5, marking the first time since 1923 that bathers could take a dip in the iconic waterway following a years-long cleanup effort. […]
10 Jul 2025
Natural Resources Wales’s (NRW) Four Rivers for LIFE project has completed an additional fish pass on the Llanwrda Dulais, an important salmon and trout spawning tributary of the River Tywi. This is the third fish pass improvement scheme to be installed on this stretch of river, meaning more than eight miles will now be accessible […]
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 […]
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