Water companies in England including South West Water have apologised for the raw sewage they have dumped in our rivers and seas, insisting "we get it". Water UK, the industry body which ...

The Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) says works to remedy overflows around 24th Street in Beetham Gardens have been ...

Experts have warned that houseboat owners emptying raw sewage into a river could cause an "environmental catastrophe". A series of vessels lined up along the mudflats on the River Adur in Shoreham ...

RAW sewage was released into open water in Southend more than 100 times last year, figures show. Figures from the Environment Agency show storm overflows were used 120 times within Southend’s ...

NEW figures from the Environment Agency have laid bare how much raw sewage has been dumped in north Cumbrian waterways. The data reveals the frequency and duration of spills from storm overflows ...

She said that according to data from the River’s Trust, water companies dumped raw sewage 2,392 times into the rivers in York in 2020 alone, for a total of 14,838 hours. The Liberal Democrat ...

MPs voted to approve a government concession which aims to cut the dumping of raw sewage into the UK's rivers and sea. The government says its proposal will legally require water firms to make a ...

A marine biologist has revealed raw sewage being dumped in the English Channel has left every marine species in the water “full of cocaine, amphetamines and MDMA”. Traces of the drug ...

Thames Water allowed raw sewage to pump into the Thames in Oxfordshire for 53 days consecutively, residents of a village have claimed. Locals in South Moreton say the sewage spilling near Mill Brook ...

LAST week, MPs voted down a plan that would reduce the amount of raw sewage being dumped in rivers. All four of Oxfordshire's Tory MPs voted against the plan, whereas Labour MP Anneliese Dodds and ...

SOUTHERN Water has been fined a record £90m for dumping raw sewage into rivers and coastal waters in Hampshire and other parts of the south coast. The company admitted almost 7,000 illegal ...