Water Pollution

The Environment Agency has accepted four Enforcement Undertakings which will see money paid to North East charities, benefiting the environment and wildlife

Companies that polluted rivers and made other environmental breaches have agreed to pay more than £2.2m to a host of green charities and projects.

Repentant Ablebox has been stung with a bill of £13,017 after the “criminal” disposal of waste ink turned the nearby river Yeo purple.

NASA just released a stark comparison of how Hurricane Florence impacted the Carolina coastline as polluted rivers dump into the Atlantic.

Liquid organic waste from vegetable processing plants polluted watercourses after it was spread on a farm in Norfolk without authorisation, a court heard.

The company was fined £60k in respect of two separate discharges from a sewage treatment works at Killinchy, County Down in 2017. It was also fined £20,000 for a fish kill near Castlewellan in 2016

Rivers and wildlife could be left without sufficient water unless action is taken to reduce water use and wastage, according to an Environment Agency report published today.

At the present time businesses, govements, conservation bodies and members of the public are becoming increasingly aware and concerned about the environmental impacts associated with the discharge of silty (sediment rich) waters into our inland

A serious algae bloom has developed on Lough Sheelin, resulting in a deterioration in water clarity and quality and health concerns over the consumption of fish caught in the lake. The Lough Sheelin Trout Protection

Severn Trent Water has been fined £350,000 for polluting the River Amber in an incident that left tens of thousands of fish dead.