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People around the Humber are being asked to complete a survey to help organisations working on a new tidal flood risk strategy understand views and priorities.
With the number of boreholes being drilled in the Westcountry without permission, abstractors are reminded to contact the Environment Agency for advice.
The money from South West Water will benefit watercourses in Plymouth as an alternative to prosecution by the Environment Agency.
Response from the Chair to The Times' article "Filthy Business", 3 August 2019.
The British public are being asked to help the country protect water resources for future generations.
The NDG met on Thursday 25 July, chaired by Harvey Bradshaw, Executive Director of the Environment Agency.
Drones will be used for the first time this summer to gather information about illegal abstraction in East Anglia’s fenland areas.
New measures to enhance wildlife, transform our waste system and improve the resilience of water supplies set out in Environment Bill policy statement.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Industry and consumers invited to bring forward ideas to reduce personal water consumption
Water company efforts to protect the environment were described as ‘simply unacceptable’ in an Environment Agency (EA) report published today (10 July) with only 1 of the major water and sewage companies in England performin…
An organisation whose remit is to raise awareness of flood risk in the Hull area has announced that the city will once again host to the 'Hulltimate' Challenge.
Northumbrian Water has agreed to pay £1,179,500 after having been found by the Environment Agency to have committed several environmental offences.
Beach users in Suffolk and Norfolk might be surprised to see Environment Agency staff stride into the sea in their waders, but they are testing water quality.
CCWater has had a new chair appointed.
Bedfordshire-based Water-to-Go secures distributors in Australia and New Zealand
A National Drought Group (NDG) meeting was convened today (4 June) to review water resources ahead of summer, following a dry winter and spring which has affected river flows and groundwater levels.
The National Drought Group met on 4 June 2019
Sewage leaked from a manhole at South Sands Beach in 2012 and again during Easter Bank Holiday in 2017.
Speech by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, Water Industry Forum, Birmingham, 8 May 2019
The National Drought Group (NDG) met on Monday 18 March, chaired by Harvey Bradshaw, Executive Director at the Environment Agency, to assess the latest water resource situation and actions being taken to reduce risk for the …
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