Statutory nuisance complaint lodged by Save Windermere against United Utilities is a first over sewage pollution

Campaigners fighting to stop sewage discharges into Windermere, the Lake District’s largest lake, have made a statutory nuisance complaint against a water company in the first legal action of its kind.

The civil complaints are normally used in noise disputes, or over noxious smells. But the environmental barrister Nicholas Ostrowski has for the first time lodged a complaint on behalf of campaign group Save Windermere against United Utilities over raw sewage discharges into the lake.

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On a journey along the Thames – where fury at pollution has spawned a wave of local activism – it is clear that the decline of rivers is among this government’s worst legacies

Red kites swoop above Fawley Meadows as Dave Wallace dips a sampling beaker into the deep green water of the River Thames on a late spring day. A sharp wind blows droplets upstream towards the arches of Henley Bridge, while the might of the river, its path here straight and wide, pulls downstream towards Windsor, on its 215-mile odyssey to the North Sea.

Today, the water meadows along its banks host blue and white striped marquees, lined up in uniform rows for the Henley regatta. After the rowers depart, the river bears the swimmers who follow. They dip, jump and dive its depths at an annual festival of open water races, echoing the galas that took place in Victorian days.

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It was the second scheduled spacewalk by NASA astronauts aboard the space station that faced an interruption this month.

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Canada's 4th most populous city could run out of water in the coming days.

Despite being served by 23 reservoirs, Calgary is now relying one plant to produce water for a population of nearly 1.5 million people, not including surrounding communities. There is no timeline for a fix. Calgary's water emergency also prompts Edmonton, the 5th largest populous city in the country, to take a look at their situation. It's not exactly great, either.

At an industry presentation about dangerous “forever chemicals,” lawyers predicted a wave of lawsuits that could dwarf asbestos litigation, audio from the event revealed.

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Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: Tara Seals, Managing Editor, News, Dark Reading Source: Shahid Mehmood via Alamy Stock Photo Nearly 70% of the United States’ community drinking water systems fails to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — including the cybersecurity standards that it lays out. New EPA […]

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A science video maker in China couldn’t find a good explanation for why hot and cold water sound different, so he did his own research and published it.

The low water levels that choked cargo traffic were more closely tied to the natural climate cycle than to human-caused warming, a team of scientists has concluded.

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