29 Nov 2023
Potentially toxic “forever chemicals” have been detected in the drinking water sources at 17 of 18 England’s water companies, with 11,853 samples testing positive, something experts say they are “extremely alarmed” by. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) – a group of 10,000 or so human-made chemicals widely used in industrial processes, firefighting foams and consumer […]
29 Nov 2023
DEFRA’s budget for day-to-day spending will fall from £4.7bn in 2022/23 to £4.2bn in 2024/25 when inflation is taken into account, amounting to a real terms budget cut of £500m, according to analysis by the Liberal Democrats. Campaigners have previously said the budget is already cut to the bone, with huge reductions made during the […]
29 Nov 2023
A new campaign group, whose founders include the environmental activist and columnist George Monbiot, is taking the UK government to court over its failure to properly regulate the use of sewage sludge, which is used as fertiliser on farmland. The campaign is underpinned by the details of a once-secret Environment Agency report, obtained by an […]
29 Nov 2023
EurEau, which represents national drinking and waste water service providers from 32 countries, has published its Water Resilience Strategy for Europe (Our vision for our water’s future). Here’s a summary….. Our society, economy, environment and health depend on each of us having access to reliable, clean and affordable water every day. Your European water services […]
29 Nov 2023
UKWIR (UK Water Industry Research) has published a new report ‘Quantifying and reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment processes – Phase 2’. The objective of this project was to start the practical journey for the UK and Irish water industry in the understanding of their process emission of nitrous oxide (N2O) and fugitive […]
29 Nov 2023
Southern Water has published a new plan (in map form), setting out the company’s long-term strategy to 2050 that will restore and protect the regions’ rivers and coastal habitats. The first step is set out in the Business Plan for 2025-2030, which includes the single largest investment in the environment to date of £3.3 billion. […]
29 Nov 2023
Millions of pounds will be saved by the water industry in England and Wales thanks to a new water resources model, Pywr-WREW, developed by a researcher at the Environmental Change Institute, ECI. Dr Anna Murgatroyd, Research Associate, has been awarded £50,000 funding to rebuild the national Water Resources model for England and Wales using open-source […]
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