Link to Defra press release Proposals include To introduce a tiered approach for including actions in the WINEP To better incorporate long-term planning in the development of the WINEP To clearly establish dependencies between the WINEP and other statutory planning frameworks To increase the use of catchment and nature-based solutions to meet statutory obligations To […]
Projects to restore kelp forests, create new woodland, deliver natural flood risk management, and improve water quality are among an initial 27 schemes to benefit from a pioneering new fund to drive private investment in nature and tackle climate change, Defra, the Environment Agency & Natural England have announced today (14 July 2021). Read more […]
The Rivers Trust has given its reaction to the Environment Agency environmental performance report on the water industry. THE RIVERS TRUST RESPONSE TO WATER AND SEWERAGE COMPANY ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE REPORT: WINNING SLOWLY IS THE SAME AS LOSING The Environment Agency published its Environmental Performance Report for water and sewerage companies today, assessing nine water companies’ […]
Southern Water has been sentenced to pay record £90 million in fines for widespread pollution after pleading guilty to 6,971 unpermitted sewage discharges. Southern Water has been handed a record £90 million fine after pleading guilty to thousands of illegal discharges of sewage which polluted rivers and coastal waters in Kent, Hampshire and Sussex. The […]
The EA has released ‘Water and sewerage companies in England: environmental performance for 2020’. Chair’s foreword The progress made against the Environmental Performance Assessment’s (EPA) metrics over the last 5 years shows that clear targets and regulatory focus combined with investment in the environment delivers change. From 2020’s results there is welcome news that for […]
New report sets out the results of the Environment Agency’s determination of areas of water stress that took place in 2021. Additional company areas as a result of the 2021 determination: Cambridge Water Portsmouth Water South Staffordshire Water Severn Trent Water – excluding Chester zone Veolia Water Wessex Water South West Water – Bournemouth South […]
Environment Agency Chair Emma Howard Boyd last week spoke about water scarcity at the WWT event ‘Water Security in a Changing Environment’. “Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic and there is no vaccine to cure it. Most of the world will be living with water stress in the next few years. […]
From the Guardian The head of the Environment Agency has called for the government to reinstate a £120m grant to help increase surveillance of water companies and cut pollution in rivers. Sir James Bevan, the chief executive of the agency, told MPs that water companies and the farming industry, the two main polluters of rivers, were not […]