25 May 2022
The Environment Agency and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust have worked together on the ‘Wild Wiske Revival: Clean and Green’ project over the last three years. New wetland habitat, reduced pollution and a restored river bank are just some of the enhancements made in a three-year £230,000 project to improve water quality in a North Yorkshire River. […]
11 May 2022
Scientists are calling for the production of new plastics to be capped in a bid to cut pollution and tackle the climate crisis. In March 2022, 175 countries unanimously agreed to adopt a global plastic treaty to stop plastic pollution. Not only is the treaty set to address the issue of plastic waste, but it will address the “full lifecycle of plastics,” from the extraction […]
28 Apr 2022
As covered last week, thousands of people took part in the first National Day of Action on Water Quality on Saturday 23 April, a mass protest over water firms dumping sewage in rivers. Ocean conservation charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) joined forces with clean water campaign groups to organise simultaneous protests against water companies from Scotland to […]
20 Apr 2022
CCW research on Awareness and perceptions of river water quality From CCW Over the past year, there has been growing concern about river water quality in England and Wales, and the frequency with which storm overflows are used. This research provides insight into customers’ views on this topic. What the research found 35% of people […]
20 Apr 2022
from Carvemag Thousands of people are expected to take part in the first National Day of Action on Water Quality on Saturday 23 April, a mass protest calling on water companies to end the sewage scandal polluting UK waterways. Ocean conservation charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) has joined forces with clean water campaign groups to organise 11 […]
13 Apr 2022
Environment Agency research and analysis on water quality looks at what 3 future environmental land management schemes can achieve by 2027 The Environment Agency has estimated the pollution reductions from voluntary land management and land use change until 2027. The following future environmental land management schemes are one group of a wider set of schemes […]
13 Apr 2022
From the Guardian Water companies discharged raw sewage into English rivers 372,533 times last year, a slight reduction on the previous year. The water companies covering England released untreated sewage for a combined total of more than 2.7m hours; compared with 3.1m hours in 2020, according to data released by the Environment Agency (EA) on […]
12 Apr 2022
An investigative report by Lighthouse estimates that 3,000 vessels discharge mineral oil into European waters annually – the equivalent to eight spills per day, each the size of 750 football fields. The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has spent millions of euros creating an elaborate system, CleanSeaNet, that aims to monitor and prevent bilge dumping […]
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