Record number of illegal sewage spills in Windermere in 2024
In 2024, England's largest lake, Windermere, experienced an unprecedented [...]
Seven out of nine protected river systems in Wales failing phosphate tests
Water quality standards have declined in two more of [...]
Charities appalled at UK government betrayal over river clean-up fund
Charities awaiting grants from an £11 million fund—sourced from [...]
Labour’s ‘megafarm’ plans will increase chicken waste in rivers
Labour’s plan to ease planning regulations for farmers could [...]
Bee-harming pesticides found in most English waterways
Pesticides harmful to bees have been detected in the [...]
Record number of English bathing sites with poor water quality
Water quality in England’s bathing areas has hit a [...]
Rivers becoming ‘reservoirs of disease’
Scientists warn that a "reservoir of disease" is forming [...]
Mersey estuary sewage levels ‘as high as 1980s’
Sewage pollution levels in the Mersey estuary are as [...]
England river clean-up effort ‘poor’
Efforts to clean up England's rivers, lakes, and seas [...]
‘Huge’ wildlife loss from sewage plant
A conservation charity has raised concerns over a "huge" [...]
