Upstream Thinking Wins Environment Award
South West Water’s flagship environmental programme, Upstream Thinking, has won a prestigious Utility Industry Achievement Award. The Trust has been working in partnership with South West Water since the projects inception in 2009 to reduce the cost of cleaning water...First ‘River Improvement Auction’ in the UK; win-win for farmers, South West Water and the environment?
This summer, we’ve teamed up with researchers from the University of East Anglia and South West Water to pilot an innovative Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) scheme where farmers bid for funding from South West Water in a ‘river improvement...
Bumper Year for Fish on the River Mole
There are early indications that populations of Atlantic salmon and sea trout are booming in the River Mole in Devon, after two consecutive years of record breaking catch statistics. Over recent decades, salmon populations have been in decline in many rivers across...