Environmental News from United Kingdom

EarthWire UK provides a daily overview of the environment in the UK as reported in the media. The web site is updated every day by a team of editors that reviews media sources for environmental news stories.

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Urban Water and Sanitation

Northern Ireland Water chief resigns over crisis
Guardian Unlimited | 06 Jan 2011
Laurence MacKenzie steps down after thousands of households left without water over Christmas and New Year. The head of Northern Ireland Water (NIW) has resigned over the mishandling of the water crisis that hit the province over Christmas and the New Year in the wake of freezing temperatures. The...

Flood defences: not waving but drowning
Guardian Unlimited | 09 Dec 2010
First big budget cuts to flood defence spending were spun as 'broadly the same' - now ministers want communities that offer to pay part of the bill to be favoured. Not waving but drowning. But David Cameron's put-down to Ed Miliband last week is, I think, rather better suited to describing Defra's flood defence policy.

England | Climate Variability | Floods | Governance | Urban Water and Sanitation

Cryptosporidiosis: A report onthe surveillance and epidemiology of Cryptosporidium infection in Engl...
Foundation for Water Research | 22 Sep 2006
Cryptosporidiosis is a diarrhoeal disease that is commonest in young children, can infect people of all ages and is severe in people with an immune deficiency.

Lib Dems to attack wasteful water firms
Guardian Unlimited | 14 Sep 2006
The Liberal Democrats are considering controversial plans to convert wasteful water firms into not-for-profit companies as part of a raft of ambitious green policies.

Urban Water and Sanitation | Urban Water Resources | Water Management | Water Pollution

Cost of water shortage: civil unrest, mass migration and economic collapse
Guardian Unlimited | 17 Aug 2006
Cholera may return to London, the mass migration of Africans could cause civil unrest in Europe and China's economy could crash by 2015 as the supply of fresh water becomes critical to the global economy.

Urban Pollution | Urban Water and Sanitation | Urban Water Resources

Evaluation of the Drinking WaterQuality and Health Research Programme (1996-2004)
Foundation for Water Research | 01 Aug 2006
Defra supports a research programme on drinking water quality and health, which is managed by the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI). This programme has a number of important requirements for research.

Freshwater | Freshwater Pollution | Urban Water and Sanitation | Urban Water Resources

Planet Ark : Toronto Buildings Going Green on Top, But Very Slowly
Planet Ark | 28 Jul 2006
A handful of buildings in Canada's biggest city are going green on top in an effort to help the environment and reduce global warming, but the city admits its plan for high-rise gardens has barely taken root.

Water company leakage - Government wants better progress from poor performers
DEFRA - Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 27 Jul 2006
A cut of 20 million litres in the amount of water lost through leakage every day is a start but needs to improve further, Environment Minister Ian Pearson said

California could see blackouts without conservation
Reuters | 25 Jul 2006
If Californians do not conserve considerably on Monday, rotating outages are possible with demand forecast to reach record levels again due to the heat wave, the California Independent System Operator said in a release.

Arabs need to spend $100 billion on water by 2016: report
Reuters | 25 Jul 2006
Arab states will need to invest a $100 billion on desalination over the next decade if demand for water keeps growing at the current pace, especially in the Gulf region, an energy services firm said on Saturday

Urban Water and Sanitation | Urban Water Resources

Reservoir opened to save salmon
BBC | 24 Jul 2006
A Devon reservoir releases millions of litres of water to keep fish healthy in the heatwave as parts of England face their worst drought for 30 years.

Bathers set to enjoy sun, sea and sewage
Sunday Herald | 23 Jul 2006
It's summer, the sun is shining, and there's sewage on our shores again. Two Scottish beaches look to have already failed the faecal safety limits for this year, and five more have recorded excess levels of pollution.

Landfill Stabilisation andCompletion under the Landfill Directive
Foundation for Water Research | 21 Jul 2006
The behaviour and management of wastes deposited in landfill, be they municipal solid waste, mechanically biologically pre-treated waste or incinerator residues is dependent upon a mixture of hydraulic, biochemical and mechanical processes.

Urban Water and Sanitation | Urban Water Resources | Water Management

Uranium occurrence and behaviour in British groundwater
Foundation for Water Research | 21 Jul 2006
This report describes the concentrations and distributions of uranium (U) in groundwater from aquifers in Great Britain and discusses the most likely sources and controls on U mobility

Urban Ecosystems | Urban Environment | Urban Water and Sanitation | Urban Water Resources

Washing dishes by hand wastes millions of litres
Guardian Unlimited | 17 Jul 2006
Washing dishes by hand wastes millions of litres of water every day in the UK, according to a study by Waterwise, a UK pressure group.

World Bank chief urges regional action on Lake Victoria
Yahoo! News | 13 Jul 2006
World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz called for regional cooperation to preserve and exploit the resources of Lake Victoria to help cure chronic power shortages in east Africa.

Swimmers Brave "Smelly" River in South China
Planet Ark | 13 Jul 2006
Over 3,500 swimmers plunged into the Pearl River in China's far south on Wednesday in an official effort to show that the once toxic waterway is now clean enough to dip in, state media reported.

Hazardous Waste | Health and Environment | Urban Water and Sanitation | Urban Water Resources | Water Pollution

Think before you drink
Guardian Unlimited | 13 Jul 2006
As Britain staggers through another long, hot summer, our consumption of mineral water is set to break all records. We do need a lot of water to stay healthy - but does it have to come out of a bottle?

Bangladesh coal divides region
BBC | 12 Jul 2006
Tens of thousands of people will lose their livelihoods and homes if plans to mine coal in the north west of the country go ahead.

Half of China's Chemical Plants Pose Risks
Planet Ark | 11 Jul 2006
Nearly half of China's chemical and petrochemical plants pose serious environmental risks, the country's environmental watchdog said on Tuesday, months after an explosion at a plant poisoned drinking water for millions.

Freshwater | Freshwater Pollution | Urban Water and Sanitation | Urban Water Resources | Water Pollution

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