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Rainwater Management Platform named a winner of the fifth Water Breakthrough Challenge

Awards, Charity & Funding
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...
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Water Breakthrough Challenge 5 funding win for CIRIA to develop digital resource for blue-green infrastructure interventions

Awards, Charity & Funding
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...
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Landmark case sees Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water fined £1.35m for over 800 breaches to sewage discharge permits

Government, Policy & Regulation
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...
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Yorkshire Water recruits storm overflow team

Water Company News
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...
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EPA says high standards achieved for bathing water quality in Ireland, but challenges remain during heavy rainfall

Government, Policy & Regulation
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Ireland has published the Bathing Water Quality in Ireland report for 2024 which shows that water quality at...
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Information Commissioner’s Office tells water companies that transparency must be the default position

Government, Policy & Regulation
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...
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United Utilities launches new £9m fund to boost rainwater management

Water Company News
North West water company United Utilities has launched a new fund to help local authorities across the region to manage rainwater in a sustainable...
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Objectively Speaking: An in-depth review of storm overflow performance for 2024

Insight & Opinion
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...
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IN FULL FLOW: Smart pumping can cut storm overflows

Insight & Opinion
The massive £12 billion drive to reduce combined sewer overflows (CSOs) by 45% in AMP8 is now underway and includes major schemes to increase...
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Sewer sealing drives storm overflow reduction work in East Sussex village

Water Company News
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...
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£9.7m project to improve Ilkley bathing water underway in Addingham

Water Company News
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...
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Storm discharges reduced in Roundhay after £250k Yorkshire Water investment

Water Company News
Yorkshire Water has completed a £250k investment in Roundhay, Leeds, to reduce the number of storm water discharges into a tributary of Wyke Beck...
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£1.4m investment to reduce storm overflows into River Don

Water Company News
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...
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£2.5m investment to reduce storm overflows into river Dearne

Water Company News
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...
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Latest EDM data reveals significant reduction in storm overflow spills for United Utilities

Water Company News
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...
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Storm overflow spills reduced across the North East 

Water Company News
Northumbrian Water has said that spills from storm overflows have reduced across the North East due to investment projects and innovative steps taken by...
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Yorkshire Water reduces number of discharges from storm overflows by 12% in 2024

Water Company News
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...
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Environment Secretary describes the number of spills from storm overflows as “disgraceful” after new figures released

Government, Policy & Regulation
The Environment Secretary has described the number of spills from storm overflows as “disgraceful” as new figures were released by the Environment Agency yesterday...
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Environment Agency says spill count and duration remains unacceptably high across England following publication of latest Event Duration Monitoring

Government, Policy & Regulation
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...
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Severn Trent completes improvements to 1,500 storm overflows – and is now set to deliver a further 600 by autumn

Water Company News
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...
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Yorkshire Water invests £445k in Northallerton storm overflow

Water Company News
Yorkshire Water is investing £445k in a Northallerton storm overflow to reduce the number of discharges into Terry Gutter during periods of heavy or...
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£835k investment to reduce discharges from Marton storm overflow underway

Water Company News
Yorkshire Water is investing £835k at a storm overflow in Marton, near Pickering, to reduce the number of discharges into the river Seven, improving...
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StormHarvester receives £8.4M investment to expand business

Awards, Charity & Funding
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...
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South West Water tackles storm overflows head on in North Devon

Water Company News
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,...
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£1.9m investment to reduce discharges from Leeds storm overflow underway

Water Company News
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...
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Thames Water installs brand new storm tank at Bentley Sewage Treatment Works as part of £6 million investment 

Water Company News
Thames Water has announced the installation of a new storm tank as part of a £6 million upgrade taking place at Bentley STW, to...
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Environmental project underway to protect the North Tyne

Water Company News
Work has started to install a storm water storage tank in a Northumberland sewage treatment works to help to protect and improve water quality...
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Severn Trent improves stormwater infrastructure with Evenproducts auxiliary tank programme

Industry News
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...
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Floods Minister Emma Hardy meets with Environment Agency and urges caution following rain over New Year

Government, Policy & Regulation
Floods Minister Emma Hardy has met with staff from the Environment Agency to discuss the response to the New Year downpour, as heavy rain...
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River levels begin to ease as Scotland recovers from heavy Hogmanay rainfall

Government, Policy & Regulation
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has begun to remove regional Flood Alerts and localised Flood Warnings, which had been issued after widespread river...
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Hampshire community to get giant storm tank in time for Christmas

Water Company News
A new concrete tank which can hold 600,000 litres of storm water is almost ready – doubling the capacity of a Hampshire wastewater treatment...
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Scottish Water launches first online overflow map, showing near real-time data from waste water overflows

Water Company News
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...
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Environment Agency publishes major update to national flood and coastal erosion risk assessment

Environmental News
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...
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Xylem pumps bolster Rotherham flood resilience

Insight & Opinion
The centre of the town of Rotherham in South Yorkshire suffered significant flooding following extreme rainfall in June 2007 and November 2019, affecting hundreds...
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Storm Bert exposes urgent need for flood resilience and coastal adaptation, says CIWEM

Insight & Opinion
More heavy rain is set to fall in southern England and south Wales this week, adding to the chaos caused by Storm Bert, which...
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Ofwat and CCW issue warning after customers whose homes were hit by sewer flooding feel let down and abandoned

Government, Policy & Regulation
New research by Ofwat and the Consumer Council for Water (CCW), that questioned customers whose homes were flooded with sewage, shows wastewater companies must...
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