Ruth Williams

Pollard: Time for water to get political

Report shows 88% rise in CSO discharges

Ofwat calls for faster reforms in non-household market

Water sector has to fight back against pollution blame game

Benefits of smart water metering outweigh costs

Weekend press round-up: SSE boss defies activist investors’ demands

This week's round up of the weekend newspapers includes Martin Lewis hitting out at energy prices, SSE's boss stands firm against activist investors and Thames Water has been fined for polluting an Oxfordshire river as public anger over waterways continues

Ofwat calls for cultural shift at PR24 to plan for the future

Ofwat has said a cultural shift will be needed from water companies in order to move away from producing five-year business plans in isolation. The regulator wrote to businesses setting out expectations for "minimum requirements" on long-term strategies.

Ofwat launches investigation into ‘unpermitted’ sewage discharges

Net-zero transition: ‘Make energy cool again’

River Thames: Biodiversity recovering despite more plastic pollution

Populations of birds, eels and seals living in the River Thames have risen steadily despite increasing plastic pollution and rising temperatures. A survey by the Zoological Society London of the UK's second longest river, which was declared biologically dead in 1957, found bird and mammal populations have improved over the past 10 years, although fish populations have deteriorated in the same period.