Wastewater treatment

Yorkshire to invest £13m at bathing river site

Yorkshire Water has set out £13 million of investment to improve water quality in the River Wharfe in Ilkley which was the first inland bathing site designated last year. The company stressed that its interventions alone would not be sufficient to transform the river and called on stakeholders to work together to tackle pollution at source

EAC calls for culture of ‘water citizenship’

Ofwat urged to limit executive bonuses for pollution failures

Covid in wastewater early warning system upgraded to detect Omicron variant

PR24 to include emissions performance commitments

Ofwat has set out its expectations for water companies to align their decarbonisation strategies with UK government targets that focus on both operational and embedded emissions. The regulator said the next price review will feature carbon reduction performance commitments.

Scottish Water sets out CSO ambition

The water sector looks ahead to 2022

Meet the Innovators: Shaunna Berendsen, Spring

Lessons from the first year of Ofwat’s Innovation Fund

Severn Trent fined £1.5m for pollution offences

Southern underperforms against key AMP7 targets

Southern Water's interim results for the first six months of 2021/22 show the business is behind on a series of key targets and has already exceeded its annual maximum number of sewer flooding incidents following a particularly wet summer season. The company, which welcomed a new majority shareholder in September when Macquarie invested more than £1 billion, has set out it strategies to improve across all indicators.

Meet the Innovators: Kieran Brocklebank, United Utilities

What UK water firms could learn from going Dutch

Anglian trials IoT monitoring for sewer vacuum systems

Severn Trent captures carbon from sewage treatment

Severn Trent has joined forces with CCm Technologies to create a sustainable fertiliser from waste by applying carbon capture technology to wastewater treatment processes at its Birmingham plant. The company said the scheme will open new commercial streams and contribute to its 2030 triple carbon pledge commitments.