Environmental Reporting News
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Business and Public Sector organisations brace for impact as water bills soar!
It’s interesting that very little noise has been made within the media circles regarding the recent increases in water, wastewater, trade effluent and surface water charges for business and public sector customers, which are by any measure significant and will exceed many customers budget projections. For example, Southern Water’s water charges are up 18.3 percent and 13 percent for ...
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A school water audit report uncovers a 50 per cent saving on their water bills
A school in Berkshire commission a school water audit as an integral part of their cost reduction and sustainability drive, in order to find savings on their increasing water bills. In the knowledge that their water charges are increasing year on year. As their water wholesaler Thames Water are raising the wholesale water charges by 7.8 percent on water and 15.2 percent on wastewater from ...
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Spotlight On: Water Risk In Global Supply Chains
Water systems around the world are becoming increasingly fragile, burdened as they are by the combined pressures of climate change, population growth, urbanisation, pollution, water mismanagement and more frequent extreme weather events like flooding and drought. Figures from the United Nations show that water demand around the world is expected to rise by up to 30 per cent by the year 2050, ...
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England’s Raw Sewage Spills ‘More Than Double In 2023’
Despite the fact that the dire state of the nation’s rivers, lakes and streams hits headlines on a daily basis, despite the fact that there has been a very intense public outcry about the use of combined sewer overflows and despite the fact that crackdown after crackdown has been announced by the government, it seems that water suppliers around the country are still not getting the message, ...
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