Water Pollution Prevention News Water Pollution Special – Global Drinking Water Scandals

Water Pollution Prevention

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 […]

Dry rivers, Cotswold river quality concerns, UK-wide Covid-19 sewage monitoring

Water Pollution Containment

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. […]

Back to Work, Fly Tipping, and a Spate of Huge Industrial Fires

Water Pollution Prevention

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

Water Pollution Prevention

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

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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 […]

Huge environment fines, Milton Keynes farmer’s shame, EU targets missed

Water Pollution Prevention

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

Firewater Containment

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 […]