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The Environment Agency has moved Sussex into a state of prolonged dry weather, joining Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Change of status because of the environmental impact created by a lack of rainfall and high temperatures.
The Environment Agency is taking action to protect water supplies and wildlife in the Midlands as dry weather continues to place pressure on river levels.
Parts of southern, central, and eastern England move closer to drought status
The Environment Agency has secured £517,000 from United Utilities for sewage discharge breaches into the River Tame, funding environmental improvements.
Beaches forced to close, local trade hit, equipment failure and lack of oversight by company.
The Environment Agency is moving the area into a state of prolonged dry weather after England’s warmest spring on record and a series of summer heatwaves.
The Environment Agency has told South West Water it should pursue appropriate sewage treatment for the Isles of Scilly.
Southern Water has pleaded guilty after the Environment Agency found a dark plume of pollution from one of its sites in a Hampshire chalk stream.
The Environment Agency has changed the status of parts of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight to prolonged dry weather
Half a million-pound financial penalties introduced in latest crackdown on polluting water companies
First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government
18,771 new homes in East Anglia, Lincolnshire and the Home Counties closer to being built
First Environment Agency Agriculture Report published, providing a national overview of the sector’s environmental performance and regulatory outcomes
Environment Agency Chief Executive Philip Duffy’s keynote address looking at how the devastating drought changed the way we manage and use water.
Weather whiplash continues as climate change brings increasingly volatile weather
A letter from Emma Reynolds, Defra's Environment Secretary of State to Ofwat outlining concerns on proposals to recapitalise Thames Water.
Following a public consultation, the Environment Agency has issued a permit variation to Saputo Dairy UK for their creamery site near Davidstow, Cornwall.
The water firm admits 18 charges of water pollution in Devon and Cornwall and sentencing is expected on 30 July 2026.
Protected salmon and trout died in the pollution incident, and the watercourse was still impacted two years later.
Designated sites include first-ever site on the River Thames in London
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