Yorkshire Water has signed a 15-year agreement to use the biomethane produced as a by-product of its sewage treatment processes to produce gas power for the UK.
Biogas is produced as a by-product of Yorkshire Water’s sewage wastewater treatment processes and can be upgraded to separate methane from the other component…
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is planning to consult on expanding its targets to tackle sewage even further to cover all coasts, estuaries and marine protected sites.
Targets were set in last August’s Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan, which was backed up by £56bn in capital investment…
Ministers have pledged to make it illegal for water companies to send sewage into the natural environment where it can cause harm.
Environment secretary Thérèse Coffey told MPs in the House of Commons yesterday that she planned to enshrine storm-overflow-reduction targets in law. It marks a hardening of the government's stance…
The High Court has given permission for a hearing to take place on whether the government’s plan for reducing sewage dumping is too lenient in what could potentially be “the most consequential environmental law case in recent history” according to the non-profit supporting the case.
The Department for Environment, Food and…
The newly-appointed secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs Ranil Jayawardena has given the UK’s water companies until 21 September to present plans on how they will make “significant improvements” on their “completely unacceptable” sewage dumping practices.
The announcement comes as heavy rainfall in recent weeks has seen water…
The Environment Agency has scalded England’s water and sewerage companies for their “terrible” environmental performance and has threatened to prosecute chief executives and board members.
The public body’s Water and sewerage companies in England: environmental performance report 2021 describes the performance of the nine water companies as “the worst we have…
With the primary bores on the £4bn Thames Tideway Tunnel project now complete, client Tideway reflects on the lessons learned.
Tideway chief technical officer Roger Bailey believes that the undoubtedly successful construction of London’s super sewer – the 25km long Thames Tideway Tunnel – is largely down to early upfront collaborative…
The government has launched a consultation into its Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan, which outlines a step change in how water companies tackle the number of discharges of untreated sewage.
Under the new plans, water companies will face strict limits on when they can use storm overflows and must completely eliminate…
Severn Trent Water has been fined £1.5M for sewage discharges from four sewage treatment works in Worcestershire between February and August 2018.
The water company has also been ordered to pay prosecution costs of £58,365. Sentencing of the case brought by the Environment Agency occurred at Kidderminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.…
The UK’s biggest water companies have revealed to NCE what they are planning to do to stem the flow of raw sewage being dumped into the UK’s rivers following public outcry.
MPs voted down an amendment to the Environment Bill that would have placed a legal duty on water companies not…
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