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Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, at a Royal Society Conference, 19 October 2021.
The Environment Agency has today welcomed a new chalk stream strategy to protect ‘England’s rainforests’
The Environment Agency has issued the first ever licences to abstract water on the Isles of Scilly.
Consultation on plans to modernise water abstraction and enhance the Environment Agency's powers to protect groundwater
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
The Environment Agency has prosecuted Yorkshire Water ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº Limited for illegally discharging sewage effluent into the Potter Carr Nature Reserve.
Environment Agency consults on changes to better protect the environment and long-term water security
Make the right choices when visiting beaches, rivers and lakes this summer.
Make the right choices when visiting beaches, rivers and lakes this summer
Review of water investment programme to ensure water companies’ money delivers better outcomes for environment.
A pioneering new fund to drive private investment in nature and tackle climate change has been awarded to 27 projects
Latest annual report by the Environment Agency shows that despite improvements, certain water companies are still failing in their duty to the environment
Southern Water sentenced to pay record £90 million in fines for widespread pollution after pleading guilty to 6,971 unpermitted sewage discharges.
Measures set out to encourage water efficient products and introduce more consistent approach to leakage; seven new areas designated in serious water stress
Environment Agency Chair Emma Howard Boyd speaks about water scarcity at the WWT event 'Water Security in a Changing Environment'
An Essex farm has donated £25,000 to a wildlife charity after abstracting water during a period of dry weather.
Burst water mains contaminated Billing Brook in Northampton and Willow Brook in Corby.
Four new non-executive directors – Bev Keogh, Jeff Halliwell, Rachel Onikosi and Lisa Tennant - have been appointed to the Consumer Council for Water Board
Favourite recreation spot and chalk stream hit by 79 million litres of sludge.
A 5 year partnership project to eliminate pennywort on a 23 mile stretch of the River Great Ouse has been a success.
The Environment Agency is monitoring 419 bathing water sites across England until 30 September
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