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 has been developing a supplement to its widely used guidance C736: Containment Systems for the Prevention of Water Pollution (2014), reflecting growing industry demand for updated best practice. As regulatory expectations continue to evolve, this update is expected to address how containment systems perform under modern conditions — including new risks, materials, and technologies. […]
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 […]
Floating bots, Severn Trent Water fines, more pollution from farms
Scientists in the Netherlands are doing clever things with water bots. Severn Trent Water makes a huge charity donation to compensate for killing thousands of fish. Yet another farmer is caught polluting the environment. And a new quarry development has been halted thanks to fears about drinking water pollution. Floating bots detect pipe networks, leaks […]
Weetabix fine, chemical spills, Irish river woes and water pollution innovations
Weetabix fine, chemical spills, Irish river woes and water pollution innovations … Ireland’s river quality is plummeting fast. In Northamptonshire the cereals giant Weetabix has been fined £140,000 for polluting a river with thousands of litres of diesel fuel, threatening the lives of fish and water plants. Chemical spills are not as rare as you […]
Environment Agency budget cuts, a flurry of industrial fires and chemical spills plus more
Environment Agency budget cuts, a flurry of industrial fires and more Right now the Environment Agency is pulling out all the stops, working day and night to help people across the country affected by flooding. Every year we seem to be seeing more floods in Britain, and the biggest culprit is, of course, climate change. […]
Huge environment fines, Milton Keynes farmer’s shame, EU targets missed
Huge environment fines, Milton Keynes farmer’s shame, EU targets missed This time around we’re listing the UK’s ten biggest water pollution voluntary settlements, looking at the crucial EU environmental targets the nation is about to miss, examining the multiple pollution incidents caused by one Milton Keynes farmer, and exploring the fact that The Environment Agency […]
Industrial fire, nitrate issues, orange seas and new environment initiatives
Industrial fire, nitrate issues, orange seas and new environment initiatives There’s been an industrial fire at Wath. Hampshire’s new home building strategy is suffering thanks to nitrate pollution in the Solent. The sea has turned orange in Cornwall amid concerns about a leak at the Portmellon Pumping Station. Scientists slam the government’s plans for environment […]
