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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. Following that, Ofwat today sets out plans to support £850 million of new, green investment projects. A fur...

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 update revealing water companies had responded positively to a letter sent last year by the regula...

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 will return to Parliament shortly after the Queen’s Speech, with the new legal duties due to be on th...

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 Bill later this year. The Bill will return to Parliament shortly after the Queen’s Speech, with the n...

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 Patrick (town and county) have also been looking into this. Cllr Hayes explained: “During heavy rain...