THE MAGAZINE FOR THE DRAINAGE, WATER & WASTEWATER INDUSTRIES
ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
Turning fines into fresh
starts – investing in clean rivers, lakes and seas for future generations.
The Government is committed to cleaning up our rivers, lakes and seas with increased enforcement against polluting water companies, a record investment to fix broken pipes and a generational review of the sector as part of its Plan for Change.
Secretary of State Steve Reed said: We inherited a broken water system with
record levels of sewage being pumped into waters.
But the era of profiting from failure is over. A record 81 criminal investigations have been launched into water companies under this government and Ofwat recently announced the largest fine ever handed to a water company in
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Meteor invests in major new water quality centre
Meteor Communications, the remote environmental monitoring specialist, has invested in a new water quality service centre that is 250% larger than the company’s previous facility. “This expansion reflects the rapidly growing demand for remote river and final effluent monitoring systems, and in particular the continuous water quality monitoring requirements of the Environment Act 2021, Section 82,” explains Managing Director, Matt Dibbs.
Meteor provides a maintenance and calibration service for many of its customers, either as a service contract or as part of its ‘Water Quality as a Service’ offering. “This means that we
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This Government will invest money collected through fines into local projects to clean up our rivers, lakes and seas for good.
More detail on the projects and programmes that this funding will go towards will be set out in due course.
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