Largest ever Environmental Fine for Region’s Water Company
THE REGION'S water company South West Water (SWW) has been fined £2.1million for prior pollution incidents in Devon and Cornwall. The offences occurred between July 2016 and August 2020 at Lostwithiel, Kilmington, Crediton and Torpoint sewage treatment works and the...
Your Donation can be DOUBLED
DONATIONS to our charity this week will be doubled, helping us keep bringing rivers to life where you live. We are taking part in the Big Give’s Green Match Fund, as part of our Bringing Rivers to You campaign, to raise money to keep protecting and restoring the...
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...