The total package of Garfield rose in value by £830,000 last year and she ended up pocketing £3.9 million.

Paper says machine learning could prove crucial tool in efforts to improve quality of country’s rivers

New Environment Secretary Ranil Jayawardena has given water company chiefs two weeks to set out 'significant improvements' to prevent sewage being dumped in open water.

Analysis: taking control of the utility would benefit consumers and, more importantly, the environment

Water companies apologise for sewage spills in England, but critics say customers should not foot the bill.

ALEX BRUMMER: Our streams, rivers and oceans are treated as open sewers by giant water companies, which pour torrents of human waste into them year after year.

Globally important chalk streams are under threat from pollution, change by humans, and over-abstraction to supply drinking water

[FREE TO READ] Downing Street intervenes after industry admits households will pay £10bn sewage spills bill

Thames Water chief executive Sarah Bentley has announced she is quitting her job with immediate effect after three years in the role.

The annual bill for the average household in England and Wales will go up by £31, Water UK says.

Campaigners cite previous court rulings against shareholders, such as in the case of Northern Rock bank

The agency made the call after awarding water companies lower marks for pollution.

Thames Water did not tell the whole truth about sewage works' undercapacity in its response to a planning appeal, say campaigners.

Thames Water chief exec Sarah Bentley (pictured) declined to say if she will take a bonus this year after earning £2m in 2022. That included a £496k bonus.

Thames Water says it can sometimes take up to four days for the sewage to clear

Thames Water is in trouble - not the illegal sewage dumping trouble that it still runs rings around the regulators to profit from, this time it's far more serious for the debt-laden company apparen...

Ministers refuse to say whether they have met with water companies to solve problem

Sarah Bentley lands £1.5m despite saying she would shun bonus amid criticism of water companies

STEVE DOUBLE: Right now, across the country, we are feeling the effects of a second heatwave in what is already the driest summer in over 50 years.

Alongside honey-coloured stone and Domesday Book heritage, sewage-infested rivers are becoming something of a feature

The government has ordered water companies to show their blueprints for improving thousands of pipes spilling sewage into rivers and seas.Just a week after The

At launch of cleaner water plan, minister says those who say they can end problem are ‘detached from reality’ or dishonest

Second in a series of blogs about WASP's investigation which revealed the absence of effective corruption control in one of the most vulnerable regulators of polluters - the Environment Agency.Only a...

Letters: Bill Kingdom says the Environment Agency and Ofwat have failed to perform, Dr Richard JF Bewley suggests mutualisation and Richard Davies wonders what the difference is between fly-tippers...

England’s nine water and sewage companies are more than 90 per cent owned by overseas investors, i investigation finds

To help cover the costs of new investments, households could be hit with a staggering 74 per cent increase in water bills amid fury over the privatised woeful track record of pollution and leaks

Sewage campaigners say plans for 40 new homes in a village will simply put more sewage into an illegally operating works, which will result in more…

Conservative MPs are facing a backlash on social media after rejecting tougher sewage protections in the Environment Bill.