02 Oct 2025
Image description: Aerial image of sewage treatment facility. Image by Photo by Ivan Bandura on Unsplash UK Pennon group eyeing profitability for 2025-26 South West Water owner Pennon has reported a “strong return to profitability” despite higher costs borne during the summer drought and the UK’s hottest summer on record. The FTSE 250 water […]
02 Oct 2025
Image description: A water pipe flowing into a river. Photo by Jacob Antony on Unsplash Internal documents and data shared with BBC News have highlighted that the Environment Agency (EA) has been struggling to monitor incidents of serious pollution. An internal EA document from this year states that all potentially serious incidents should be […]
02 Oct 2025
Image description: The Thames at night with the landmark Shard illuminated on the left. Image by Phil Reid on Unsplash. Sky News reported that the group of lenders which are in pole position to own Thames Water and keep it out of government ownership “are to pledge to the industry regulator [Ofwat] that they […]
02 Oct 2025
Image description: aerial shot of a water treatment plant. Photo by Ian on Unsplash Financial regulator Ofwat, in response to a freedom of information request by Save Windermere campaigning group, revealed United Utilities had been allocated £129m since 2000 to connect non-mains systems, mostly septic tanks, to the mains sewer network and reduce sewage pollution. […]
25 Sep 2025
Image description: wild swimmers doing front crawl in a body of water. Photo by Johanna Steppan on Unsplash A new report from the London assembly has recommended ten new wild swimming locations should be created in London, to accelerate a clean-up of the capital’s waterways and increase nature access. The investigation, titled “Swimmable rivers: […]
25 Sep 2025
Image description: cars stuck in traffic.Photo by Nabeel Syed on Unsplash After six years, Brighton’s Wild Park rainscape, formed of a vegetated swale linked to four planted basins, is almost completed. The Aquifer Project, formed in 2016 to protect the chalk aquifer, secured £1.79m funding from National Highways to build the rainscape with the […]
18 Sep 2025
Image description: Aerial view of a green combine harvester harvesting a field. Image by Scott Goodwill on Unsplash An investigation carried out by the Guardian and Watershed Investigations revealed more than 750,000 tonnes of liquid from landfills are mixed with sewage at water treatment works and spread on farmland across England each year. Production […]
18 Sep 2025
Image description: ancient Clapper bridge over the river Avon in Dartmoor national park. Image by Ben Wrigley on Unsplash River campaigners launch new report identifying key threats Campaign for National Parks and the Rivers Trust have released their ‘Rivers at Risk‘ report, outlining the threats rivers in National Parks face and demanding urgent action […]
