Water Pollution Prevention News – Microplastics, Illegal Waste and 100,000 Dead Fish
The mighty River Thames isn’t just mighty. It’s also filthy, thanks to extraordinary amounts of micro-plastic waste. A football pitch-sized illegal waste site in Cambridgeshire is being shut down for good by the Environment Agency. Omex Agricultural, the company responsible for serious pollution that killed more than 100,000 fish in the River Witham, have been […]
Water Pollution Prevention News Water Pollution Special – Global Drinking Water Scandals
Water Pollution Special – Global Drinking Water Scandals Living in a first-world country with plenty of sensible regulations, rules, laws and guidelines in place plus an enforcement agency to make sure they’re met, you’d think our drinking water was perfectly clean and safe. It isn’t always so, and in other countries people are getting an even […]
Appeal for PFAS to be defined as a class, industrial spills, swimmers falling ill, poor water on beaches and free trees.
Scientists appeal for PFAS chemicals to be defined as a class According to the Green Science Policy Institute, all perfluorinated and polyfluorinated substances, also called PFAS, should be treated as a single class, as well as ‘avoided for non-essential uses’. The idea is supported by a peer-reviewed article in the publication Environmental Science & Technology […]
Dry rivers, Cotswold river quality concerns, UK-wide Covid-19 sewage monitoring
Dry rivers, Cotswold river quality, UK-wide Covid-19 sewage monitoring Yorkshire’s rivers, reservoirs, ponds and lakes are looking worryingly empty thanks to the driest May in recorded history. Rivers in the Cotswolds get a political publicity boost that highlights Thames Water’s continuing failure to manage sewage discharges properly, putting them at risk of huge environment fines. […]
Containment Systems for the Prevention of Pollution – Supplement to CIRIA Report C736 (2014)
CIRIA have started work on a supplement to CIRIA c736 which was launched in 2014. They are looking for feedback from industry. If you are involved in water pollution prevention, spill containment, site or drainage design and you have feedback this is your opportunity to participate. The more feedback they get the more relevant and […]
Back to Work, Fly Tipping, and a Spate of Huge Industrial Fires
Going back to work – Will the world be different? In early April we wrote about the things Covid-19 should be teaching us about the way we have been living. Two months down the line the most of what we were saying is mostly still relevant our optimism that the crisis would change peoples attitude […]
COVID 19, Sewage discharges, illegal waste fines, criminal operations
Covid 19, sewage discharges, illegal waste fines, criminal operations Our current approach to Covid 19; this week Venice’s famously polluted canals have cleared for the first time in a very long time, mostly thanks to Covid-19 reducing the number of visitors to the city. At the same time the UK government’s new environment bill is coming under […]
Environment fines, double the usual rainfall, commercial fires
Environment fines, double the usual rainfall, commercial fires You can run but you can’t hide – one Plymouth man has been extradited from Ireland to face a prison sentence for serious fly tipping. We encountered twice the average rainfall in February, a trend that’s set to grow as climate continues to bite. And, as usual, […]
Water Pollution Prevention Special – Storms, Fines, US Polluted Drinking Water and Beavers.
Water Pollution Prevention Special – Storms, fines, climate, Trump and more The past two weeks has seen Britain battered by ‘named’ storms, with Ciara and Dennis causing significant damage across the nation. At the same time, in the USA, it appears much of the country’s drinking water is widely polluted by so-called ‘forever chemicals’, substances […]
A 13 day-long wood fire, big fines and long custodial prison sentences
A 13 day-long wood fire, big fines and long custodial prison sentences Industrial fires and water pollution sit at the heart of our first post for February 2020. Despite tough water pollution prevention laws and strict fire regulations, it keeps on happening. And the perpetrators almost always end up with a large fine as well […]
