Rebecca Pow
The Industry and Regulators Committee has sent a letter to the government, highlighting concerns about various issues, including underinvestment, increasing water bills and the absence of social tariffs
Three major water companies in the UK are suspected of engaging in illegal sewage discharges even when it wasn’t raining
United Utilities faces an £800,000 penalty for unlawfully extracting a whopping 22 billion litres of water from Lancashire boreholes, as revealed by a prosecution by the Environment Agency
The Environment Agency has launched an eight-week consultation on removing the £250,000 cap on penalties for environmental offences
Under the new legislations, regulator could impose higher penalties to ensure compliance across sectors such as energy, water, waste operations and incinerators
The government has launched a review of heat pumps over noise fears
Ofwat has secured a funding increase of £11.3 million, allowing them to triple their enforcement capacity and hold water companies accountable for their shortcomings
The Environment Agency officers uncovered Anglian Water’s monthly discharge of waste water equivalent to three Olympic swimming pools into the North Sea
The company has received the ‘largest ever’ fine for environmental offences in Devon and Cornwall
The investments in 31 schemes are expected to improve water resilience, storm overflows and reduce nutrient pollution