09 Oct 2025
Image description: Water cascading down rocks. Photo by Gary Yost on Unsplash. A new £2 million research initiative has been launched to investigate the growing threat of so-called “forever chemicals” in UK rivers and their impact on wildlife. The project, titled UNSaFE (UNderstanding the Scale, Sources, Fate and Effects of PFAS pollution), is funded […]
09 Oct 2025
Image description: Water spraying from a hose. Photo by Oliver Li on Unsplash The Environment Agency has issued 17 drought permits to Yorkshire Water in response to ongoing dry conditions affecting water supplies across the region. As reported by the UK Government, the permits will allow Yorkshire Water to take additional water from rivers […]
09 Oct 2025
Image description: Shoals of juvenile salmon, known as smolts struggling with barriers in the River Itchen. Image by Kieran Gillingham. Over 500km of Yorkshire rivers is opening up as physical barriers, a legacy from the region’s industrial past, are removed in a bid to support fish migration and improve habitats. Led by the Environment […]
09 Oct 2025
Image description: water droplet falling from a tap. Image by Tim from Pixabay Millions of households in England will have to pay even higher water bills than had previously been expected, after five water companies appealed to the UK’s competition regulator. In December regulator Ofwat said average annual household bills could rise by 36% […]
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: A water glass held up by a hand. Image by Manki Kim on Unsplash. Thames Water’s desalination plant, officially known as the Thames Gateway, has cost more than half a billion pounds since 2010 and has run only five times. Over 15 years it has delivered 7.2bn litres of drinking water, equating […]
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