2,000 fish die as double pump failure diverts sewage across fields into watercourse.
Tag: Raw Sewage
Hillside Dairy Farms fined over ‘grossly polluted’ Co Tyrone river
A Co Tyrone business has been fined £5,000 for polluting a river. Hillside Dairy Farms Ltd, at Camderry Road in Dromore, was charged with making a polluting discharge to a waterway in October 2022, and of making a discharge of trade or sewage effluent into a waterway between November 2022 and January 2023. The charges […]
Severn Trent Water fined more than £2 million over river sewage pollution
Huge amounts of raw sewage were discharged into the Trent from Strongford Wastewater Treatment Works near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Do we know true scale of pollution in UK waters?
Is our bathing water more polluted than we think? We’ve seen documents which show that almost twice as many English bathing waters would fail pollution tests – if the regulator wasn’t legally allowed to disregard some of the worst results.
Water bills to rise by 6% from April
Water bills to rise by 6% from April
England raw sewage taskforce has only met once in last year, FoI request reveals
Storm overflows group has been promoted by ministers as evidence they are taking issue seriously
Waterborne Viruses Effectively Removed by Zapping Untreated Water
Using sophisticated microscopy and computational analysis, Texas A&M University researchers have now validated the merit of a water purification technology that uses electricity to remove and inactivate an assortment of waterborne viruses.
Water chief blames wild swimmers and canoeists for highlighting sewage scandal
Water UK boss David Henderson said there has been an explosion in swimming
Lord Cromwell criticized him, saying: ‘Surely that isn’t the problem at all David Henderson, chief executive officer of industry lobby group Water UK, claimed the issue of raw sewage being spewed out became such a hot topic only because more people had taken up water pursuits such as cold-water swimming.
Thames Water to pump treated wastewater into river
Thames Water is pressing ahead with plans to pump the River Thames with treated wastewater in south-west London.
Southern Water punished over ‘shocking’ wastewater spills
Southern Water has been hit with a record £126m punishment for spills of wastewater into the environment from its sewage plants and for deliberately misreporting its performance.