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Water sector to plunge £2.8 billion into the green recovery 17/05/2021 Ofwat, in collaboration with Defra, the Environment Agency, the Drinking Water Inspectorate, and CCW, wrote to water companies last year and challenged them to identify ways to support the country’s green economic recovery from COVID-19. Companies were asked to bring forward new proposals and accelerating existing ones to deliver an innovative and more resilient future for customers, society and the environment. Followin...

Ofwat: Water industry prepping £2.8bn green recovery investment programme Share Regulator reveals industry has responded to call for it to bring forward environmental projects to help boost post-pandemic recovery The water industry is working on plans for a £2.8bn green recovery investment programme, which will see it fast track a host of environmental improvement projects designed to improve water quality, curb greenhouse gas emissions, and enhance flood resilience. Ofwat today published an ...

New Environment Bill provisions to tackle storm overflows New legal duties on water companies and government will be included in the Environment Bill to reduce sewage discharged into waterways From: 11 May 2021 The Environment Bill will include new legal duties to tackle sewage discharges into rivers and help protect our waterways. Three new measures on storm overflows, announced last month by Defra, will be added by government amendment to the Environment Bill later this year. The Bill wil...

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs New Environment Bill provisions to tackle storm overflows New legal duties on water companies and government will be included in the Environment Bill to reduce sewage discharged into waterways. The Environment Bill will include new legal duties to tackle sewage discharges into rivers and help protect our waterways. Three new measures on storm overflows, announced last month by Defra, will be added by government amendment to the Environment Bil...

RESIDENTS in Dursley have welcomed government plans which could help to tackle sewage pollution in one of the town’s streams. Concerns have been raised over a number of years about sewage being released into the stream at Water Street during heavy rain. One resident, who has been looking into this for the past three years, said he has been reporting between nine and 11 pollution incidents a year to the Severn Trent water company. Dursley councillors Peter Hayes (town) and Loraine Patr...

MEON Valley MP Flick Drummond has backed a Private Members’ Bill that proposes to eliminate sewage polluting rivers.

WATERS: Biggar Bank by Mail Camera Club Member Ann Hawkins CALLS have been made to reduce the levels of sewage being discharged into rivers and coastal areas. MPs are backing plans to improve the quality of water in a bill back more than 100 parliamentarians. It was revealed last year that Biggar Bank on Walney was one of the worst swimming areas for sewage discharges. United Utilities discharged excess sewage following storms into the area 58 times in 2019/20, according to a report - t...

However increased rainfall has led to complications. Thames Water recently agreed to Mr Courts’ demand to fund an independent investigation into the health of the River Windrush, to establish the source of the turbidity issues in the river. Commenting on the recent developments, Mr Courts said: “The Government and the taskforce has committed to a series of short, medium and long-term actions focused on the ambitious goal of eliminating harm from storm overflows – a system that has b...

Taskforce Sets Goal To End Pollution From Storm Overflows New commitments from the water industry aim to increase transparency around storm overflows A joint industry-government group established last year to tackle river pollution has today (22 January) agreed a new objective to prevent damage from storm overflows. The Storm Overflows Taskforce – made up of Defra, the Environment Agency, Ofwat, Consumer Council for Water, Blueprint for Water and Water UK – has agreed to set a long term goa...

Water companies pledge to provide real-time data on sewage overflows The Storm Overflows Taskforce has agreed to set a long term goal to eliminate harm from storm overflows as part of efforts to tackle river pollution Image: Defra The water industry has made new commitments to increase transparency and provide real-time data about the releases of sewage into rivers and inland waterways during and after periods of heavy rainfall. The Storm Overflows Taskforce – made up of Defra, the Environme...