From Yorkshire Water and the Yorkshire Peat Partnership. Yorkshire Water will achieve significant gains on its journey to carbon net zero, by investing further in peatland restoration. Funded by Yorkshire Water, Yorkshire Peat Partnership (YPP) will continue its peatland restoration work at Humberstone Bank Farm, which is owned by Yorkshire Water and leased under its […]
Yorkshire Water has offered a charity donation to resolve an investigation into a sewage pollution event. The Environment Agency has secured £200,000 donation through an Enforcement Undertaking following a pollution incident near Doncaster. Yorkshire Water Services Ltd have paid £200,000 to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust as part of an Enforcement Undertaking (EU). The EU was […]
Last week, Yorkshire Water won the prestigious Finance for the Future Award for the company’s innovative Six Capitals sustainability accounting approach. Read more about the awards here, and about Yorkshire Water’s approach here. Last week’s Financial Times Water Summit was “a unique event on the global financial and water calendars. Targeted at CEOs and CFOs […]
Water Briefing ‘Richard Laikin, Water Sector Leader, Power & Utilities at PricewaterhouseCoopers, explores opportunities for transformation of the UK water industry. Scenarios explore the future The water industry will undergo profound changes in the coming years, driven by a progressive regulatory agenda, climate change, changing customer attitudes and the deployment of digital technology. Companies must deal […]
Getting the basics wrong, undermines confidence in innovative approaches such as catchment permitting. Too many record breaking fines seem to be occurring in January it was Thames Water. Yorkshire Water was fined £1.1million last week for a pump failure in 2013 that caused pollution to flow into the River Ouse near York. The Environment Agency […]