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This summer’s oxygen-poor “dead zone” in the Chesapeake Bay was the smallest since scientists started monitoring it in 1985, according to estimates by researchers in Maryland and Virginia. The good news for the bay could reflect the lower-than-average rainfall in the bay watershed this year, experts said. Rainwater carries pollutants into the Chesapeake, inundating the estuary with nutrients ...

The government said the rules date back to when the UK was in the EU, but plans to scrap them were defeated.

Estuary scientists say it’s time to keep investing in wastewater upgrades.

About 3,500 homes in the Dorset Council area are in planning limbo due to water pollution rules.

The Falmouth Water Quality Management Committee has formed a working group to look at urine-diverting technology as a potential means of reducing nitrogen pollution in Falmouth.