Plan for Water – The rise and fall and rise again of ‘Big Society’?
Our CEO Dr Laurence Couldrick shares his thoughts on the Plan for Water. Back in the 2010 Conservative manifesto, David Cameron championed Big Society, where the wider community would take a much higher level of personal, professional, civic and corporate...
A Time to Plan for Water
IT'S TIME to digest yesterday's release of the Government’s Plan for Water. In this, they outline how they will address the challenges our waterbodies continue to face. Plastic-based wet wipes and forever chemicals are highlighted as areas on which to concentrate. In...
Waiting & Watching for Freshwater
FRIDAY 31 March saw the Environment Agency (EA) release the latest water companies’ annual data on storm overflow spills. Event Duration Monitoring This Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) information is sent by water and sewerage companies to the EA as part of their...
Temperate Rain Forest Receives Helping Hand
A TEMPERATE rain forest within the Luxulyan Valley, near St Austell, has received a helping hand from our river operations team. As part of Defra’s G7 Legacy Project for Nature Recovery (LPNR), we scoped and delivered habitat restoration work along the Bokiddick...
WaterFit with South West Water
WaterFit The region's water company, South West Water (SWW) has launched its new interactive water quality map, WaterFit Live, ahead of this year's bathing season. Developed through the company's £330m investment programme WaterFit, this map will help people find out...
Phosphate trading scheme launches in Camel catchment
We are supporting Cornwall Council's call for landowners in the Camel catchment to help offset new housing development phosphate levels. The council’s phosphate trading scheme will address the levels of phosphates in the Camel Special Area of Conservation (SAC), which...