A pleasure boat operator says he fears for the future of his cruises due to silt and other issues on the River Severn in Shrewsbury. Dilwyn Jones said flooding and other environmental factors were making life on the river harder. “We need to take action fairly soon otherwise it won’t be navigable,” he said. Maintaining the river channel would have […]

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) isn’t having it: An ad campaign by Anglian Water extolling how it cleans water by creating wildlife-friendly wetlands has been banned for not telling consumers about its history of releasing sewage into the environment. Last month, Anglian Water pleaded guilty to allowing millions of litres of untreated sewage to overflow from a water recycling centre […]

The Guardian has reported that the storm overflows taskforce is not meeting as often as it’s supposed to. Not even close: The storm overflows taskforce set up by the government to tackle raw sewage discharges by water companies in England has only met once in the last year, a freedom of information request has revealed. […] Its terms of reference […]