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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
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.
The Environment Agency has secured £517,000 from United Utilities for sewage discharge breaches into the River Tame, funding environmental improvements.
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
Human error blamed as enough water to fill 300,000 baths taken without Environment Agency licence
Incidents off Kent coastline and inland – company released sewage into water weeks after getting record £90 million fine for almost 7,000 illegal discharges
Investigations by the Environment Agency into water pollution has brought a contribution of £2.1 million from Severn Trent Water Limited to a river charity.
WFL UK Ltd paid £350,000 to Wessex Rivers Trust after a 2021 diesel spill on the River Test.
The Environment Agency has secured £300,000 from Wessex Water for the Yeovil Rivers Community Trust, to be used to improve habitat in the Upper Yeo catchment.
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