New Environment Agency data showing a significant increase in sewage spills in England during 2023 has been variously described as “unacceptable”, “squalid”, “outrageous” and “a shitshow”.
The Environment Agency’s newly published event duration monitoring (EDM) data for 2023 shows a 54% increase in the number of sewage spills in England compared…
AI systems to manage storm loads, thousands of new in-sewer monitors, new staff and accelerated wetland construction programmes will receive investment over the next 12 months according to a government announcement.
The move by the government to invest £180M over the next 12 months follows the existing £3.1bn commitment from water…
Sewage will be diverted from the River Thames in increasingly large proportions from summer 2024 as London’s super sewer Thames Tideway Tunnel starts the process of commissioning.
When the £4.5bn project is completed, it is projected to divert 95% of the sewage pollution that currently spills directly into the River Thames.…
The mayor of London has penned a letter to Thames Water’s chief executive lambasting the company for its part in sewage spills causing the capital to lose its last “healthy, clean” river.
Sadiq Khan’s letter was sent as new City Hall figures were released that show instances of sewage flowing into…
New Zealand’s largest ever wastewater infrastructure project is underway. It will reduce combined sewer overflows and water pollution.
In September, a tunnel boring machine (TBM) for the 14.7km Central Interceptor tunnel in Auckland, New Zealand, broke through into a 69m deep shaft at May Road. It had completed the first…
Yorkshire Water has signed a 15-year agreement to use the biomethane produced as a by-product of its sewage treatment processes to produce gas power for the UK.
Biogas is produced as a by-product of Yorkshire Water’s sewage wastewater treatment processes and can be upgraded to separate methane from the other component…
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is planning to consult on expanding its targets to tackle sewage even further to cover all coasts, estuaries and marine protected sites.
Targets were set in last August’s Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan, which was backed up by £56bn in capital investment…
Ministers have pledged to make it illegal for water companies to send sewage into the natural environment where it can cause harm.
Environment secretary Thérèse Coffey told MPs in the House of Commons yesterday that she planned to enshrine storm-overflow-reduction targets in law. It marks a hardening of the government's stance…
The High Court has given permission for a hearing to take place on whether the government’s plan for reducing sewage dumping is too lenient in what could potentially be “the most consequential environmental law case in recent history” according to the non-profit supporting the case.
The Department for Environment, Food and…
The newly-appointed secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs Ranil Jayawardena has given the UK’s water companies until 21 September to present plans on how they will make “significant improvements” on their “completely unacceptable” sewage dumping practices.
The announcement comes as heavy rainfall in recent weeks has seen water…
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