04 Jun 2026
Image description: Close up shot of silvery seafoam in sunlight. Photo by Kier in Sight Archives on Unsplash A remote island, an unexpected finding Britain’s most remote inhabited island, known for knitting and rare birds, has the highest recorded levels of toxic per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in any public drinking water supply in Scotland. The […]
04 Jun 2026
Photo by Jonathan Cooper on Unsplash Communication, not supply, was the breakdown A new report jointly commissioned by Ofwat and the Consumer Council for Water has concluded that communication, rather than supply failure itself, was the clearest and most consistent breakdown in South East Water’s response to two major disruptions last winter. Fewer than one in […]
04 Jun 2026
Image description: A person in a grey jumper filling up a glass with tap water. Photo by SHTTEFAN on Unsplash A record fine South West Water has been fined a record £1.853 million at Exeter Magistrates’ Court after a faulty air valve allowed Cryptosporidium into the Brixham drinking water supply in 2024. 537 people were left […]
30 Apr 2026
Image description: Torso wearing a white t-shirt and with blonde hair, holding up a glass of water. Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash Water UK has issued a statement calling on the government to ban the manufacturing of non-essential PFAS and to strengthen the application of the “polluter pays” principle in tackling PFAS contamination. […]
09 Apr 2026
Image description: A person wearing jeans and a denim shirt filling up a black water bottle with tap water. A bowl of fruit is blurred in the foreground. Photo by Bluewater Sweden on Unsplash Water Magazine has shone a spotlight on a new industry-backed initiative seeking to address a growing bottleneck in the UK […]
26 Mar 2026
Image description: Hand holding a pen and filling in a form. Image by Andreas Breitling from Pixabay Public attitudes towards the UK water sector have been the subject of new research conducted by YouGov on behalf of Cavendish Consulting, revealing a complex and often contradictory picture that highlights both deep-rooted distrust and a significant opportunity for companies to […]
19 Mar 2026
Image description: A child standing on a paddleboard wearing a green safety jacket and brightly-coloured swimming trunks. Photo by Ben White on Unsplash The deterioration of water quality in the UK’s largest lake now threatens to intersect with another public health crisis, the rise of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, the so called ‘Superbugs’. As […]
05 Mar 2026
Image description: An aerial view of a data center located in Colraine, Northern Ireland. Photo by Geoffrey Moffett on Unsplash New inquiry launched into the environmental impact of data centres in the UK MPs have launched a new inquiry on the environmental impacts of data centres in the UK, as Energy Secretary Ed Miliband […]
