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An £80,000 project to reduce flood risk and bring a boost to wildlife and habitat in West Yorkshire is complete.
Lord Collins visits Ghana to drive mutual growth and prosperity.
Fishing at Saltash without a rod licence has left a Bodmin man nearly £500 worse off.
Environment Secretary and Financial Secretary to the Treasury met with water industry investors today
We’re taking action to clean up our rivers, lakes and seas.
A speech by Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Steve Reed on the introduction of the Water (Special Measures) Bill to Parliament.
The Royal Navy is helping to reintroduce oysters to the Solent after nearly half a century thanks to a unique project opposite Portsmouth Naval Base.
Partnership project transforms 17 hectares of floodplain grassland into complex wetland habitat at Manor Farm. Flourishing wildlife and flood management.
The government has today launched a consultation to double reimbursement for water company customers when their basic water services are hit.
The Environment Agency and the Norfolk Rivers Trust has worked together on a project along a section of the River Glaven in North Norfolk.
The Environment Agency has today published its annual report on the environmental performance of England’s nine water and sewerage companies during 2023.
Wellington farmer given suspended prison sentence for allowing slurry to run into the Westford Stream.
Environment Secretary Steve Reed has announced a series of initial steps towards ending the crisis in the water sector.
The Environment Agency has around 10,000 years' worth of hydrological data on river levels and flows - but it is stored on materials that are fast degrading.
Government receiving regular updates on a Boil Water Notice from South West Water.
Anglian Water Services Ltd has been ordered to pay over £50,000 in case brought by Environment Agency.
Environment Agency prosecutes after routine sampling results. Court told how water company broke permitted levels 3 times in 10 months.
Water company inspections will more than quadruple as the government cracks down on poor performing companies.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Anglian Water Services Ltd found guilty of failing, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a requirement to provide records from the Environment Agency.
A robotic bird of prey is being used to stop seagulls contaminating Teignmouth’s bathing water.
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