Rainwater Management Platform named a winner of the fifth Water Breakthrough Challenge
Wessex Water has secured funding from the industry regulator to help make better use of rainwater where it lands.
The company has been awarded £2...
Water Breakthrough Challenge 5 funding win for CIRIA to develop digital resource for blue-green infrastructure interventions
Construction industry research and information association, CIRIA, has been successful in securing funding through the Ofwat Innovation Fund, Water Breakthrough Challenge 5 funding round.
Working...
Landmark case sees Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water fined £1.35m for over 800 breaches to sewage discharge permits
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water has been fined £1,350,000 and ordered to pay £70,237.70 costs after pleading guilty to over 800 breaches of its environmental...
Yorkshire Water recruits storm overflow team
Yorkshire Water has opened a number of vacancies in its storm overflow reduction delivery team, as it prepares to undertake a £1.5bn programme of...
EPA says high standards achieved for bathing water quality in Ireland, but challenges remain during heavy rainfall
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Ireland has published the Bathing Water Quality in Ireland report for 2024 which shows that water quality at...
Information Commissioner’s Office tells water companies that transparency must be the default position
The Information Commissioner’s Office has told water companies that transparency must be the default position when it comes to information under the Environmental Information...
United Utilities launches new £9m fund to boost rainwater management
North West water company United Utilities has launched a new fund to help local authorities across the region to manage rainwater in a sustainable...
Objectively Speaking: An in-depth review of storm overflow performance for 2024
In his regular column, Oliver Grievson, Associate Director AtkinsRéalis and Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, provides an in-depth...
IN FULL FLOW: Smart pumping can cut storm overflows
The massive £12 billion drive to reduce combined sewer overflows (CSOs) by 45% in AMP8 is now underway and includes major schemes to increase...
Sewer sealing drives storm overflow reduction work in East Sussex village
Efforts to cut storm overflows in an East Sussex village have been boosted by the sealing of 2km of sewers.
Southern Water's Clean Rivers and...
£9.7m project to improve Ilkley bathing water underway in Addingham
Yorkshire Water has begun a £9.7m investment at Addingham sewage pumping station (SPS) and Low Mill Lane combined storm overflow (CSO) to reduce discharges...
Storm discharges reduced in Roundhay after £250k Yorkshire Water investment
Yorkshire Water has completed a £250k investment in Roundhay, Leeds, to reduce the number of storm water discharges into a tributary of Wyke Beck...
£1.4m investment to reduce storm overflows into River Don
Work recently began on site as part of £1.4m investment by Yorkshire Water to upgrade a combined storm overflow (CSO) in Park Hill, near...
£2.5m investment to reduce storm overflows into river Dearne
Yorkshire Water is investing £2.5m in Mapplewell, near Barnsley to reduce the number of discharges into the river Dearne from a storm overflow in...
Latest EDM data reveals significant reduction in storm overflow spills for United Utilities
Official event duration monitoring (EDM) figures released by the Environment Agency last week has revealed a 31% reduction in spill duration for United Utilities, with the...
Storm overflow spills reduced across the North East
Northumbrian Water has said that spills from storm overflows have reduced across the North East due to investment projects and innovative steps taken by...
Yorkshire Water reduces number of discharges from storm overflows by 12% in 2024
According to the Environment Agency's latest event duration monitoring (EDM) figures, Yorkshire Water has reduced the number of discharges from storm overflows to the region’s...
Environment Secretary describes the number of spills from storm overflows as “disgraceful” after new figures released
The Environment Secretary has described the number of spills from storm overflows as “disgraceful” as new figures were released by the Environment Agency yesterday...
Environment Agency says spill count and duration remains unacceptably high across England following publication of latest Event Duration Monitoring
The Environment Agency has today published water company Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) Annual Return data for 2024 showing the frequency and duration of spills from storm...
Severn Trent completes improvements to 1,500 storm overflows – and is now set to deliver a further 600 by autumn
Severn Trent has confirmed it has completed 1,500 engineering projects ahead of schedule and has now unveiled further plans to fast-track the delivery of...
Yorkshire Water invests £445k in Northallerton storm overflow
Yorkshire Water is investing £445k in a Northallerton storm overflow to reduce the number of discharges into Terry Gutter during periods of heavy or...
£835k investment to reduce discharges from Marton storm overflow underway
Yorkshire Water is investing £835k at a storm overflow in Marton, near Pickering, to reduce the number of discharges into the river Seven, improving...
StormHarvester receives £8.4M investment to expand business
Belfast based software company, StormHarvester, has announced an investment of £8.4M, which will situate the company for growth and see its workforce double in...
South West Water tackles storm overflows head on in North Devon
South West Water has invested £180,000 to reduce storm overflow spills at one of its highest spilling sites in North Devon.
Bratton Fleming, near Barnstaple,...
£1.9m investment to reduce discharges from Leeds storm overflow underway
Yorkshire Water is investing £1.9m at a storm overflow in Gildersome to reduce the number of discharges into Farnley Wood Beck, improving the health...
Thames Water installs brand new storm tank at Bentley Sewage Treatment Works as part of £6 million investment
Thames Water has announced the installation of a new storm tank as part of a £6 million upgrade taking place at Bentley STW, to...
Environmental project underway to protect the North Tyne
Work has started to install a storm water storage tank in a Northumberland sewage treatment works to help to protect and improve water quality...
Severn Trent improves stormwater infrastructure with Evenproducts auxiliary tank programme
Severn Trent manages the largest network of storm overflows in the UK, with around 2,472 systems. As part of an industry-leading programme to tackle...
Floods Minister Emma Hardy meets with Environment Agency and urges caution following rain over New Year
Floods Minister Emma Hardy has met with staff from the Environment Agency to discuss the response to the New Year downpour, as heavy rain...
River levels begin to ease as Scotland recovers from heavy Hogmanay rainfall
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has begun to remove regional Flood Alerts and localised Flood Warnings, which had been issued after widespread river...
Hampshire community to get giant storm tank in time for Christmas
A new concrete tank which can hold 600,000 litres of storm water is almost ready – doubling the capacity of a Hampshire wastewater treatment...
Scottish Water launches first online overflow map, showing near real-time data from waste water overflows
Scottish Water’s first online overflow map, showing near real-time data from waste water overflows across the country, has been launched and is now live...
Environment Agency publishes major update to national flood and coastal erosion risk assessment
The Environment Agency has published new data showing 6.3 million properties across England are based in areas at risk of flooding from one or...
Xylem pumps bolster Rotherham flood resilience
The centre of the town of Rotherham in South Yorkshire suffered significant flooding following extreme rainfall in June 2007 and November 2019, affecting hundreds...
Storm Bert exposes urgent need for flood resilience and coastal adaptation, says CIWEM
More heavy rain is set to fall in southern England and south Wales this week, adding to the chaos caused by Storm Bert, which...
Ofwat and CCW issue warning after customers whose homes were hit by sewer flooding feel let down and abandoned
New research by Ofwat and the Consumer Council for Water (CCW), that questioned customers whose homes were flooded with sewage, shows wastewater companies must...
Storm Bert causes significant river and surface water flooding in parts of England
Storm Bert has caused significant river and surface water flooding in parts of England over the weekend, especially in the South West, the West...
SuDS Tips: Stuart Crisp and Jo Bradley explore how SuDS can help meet water management requirements – Part 2
In the second of a two-part article, Stuart Crisp, Advanced Drainage Systems and Jo Bradley, Stormwater Shepherds, considers the use of mitigation indices (MIs)...
Shallow thinking – attenuation goes super thin
Shifting weather patterns and new planning regulations are challenging thinking on SuDS design. It’s time to get attenuation out of a hole, argues Jack...
Water industry launches world-first interactive storm overflows map
In a world first Water UK has launched an interactive map showing the operation of every single storm overflow in England.
From today anglers, kayakers...
Wavin wins gold at the ESG & Sustainability Awards 2024 with its ‘See Water Differently’ campaign
Drainage and surface water solutions manufacturer Wavin has won gold at the ESG & Sustainability Awards 2024 with its ‘See Water Differently’ campaign.
Run by PRMoment,...
United Utilities announces new programme of activity to accelerate spill reductions at a further 700 sites across the North West
United Utilities has announced a new programme of activity to accelerate spill reductions at a further 700 sites across the North West.
A dedicated team...
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