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Southern Water has been fined £330,000 after raw sewage escaped into a stream for up to 20 hours killing 2,000 fish after the water company failed to respond to an alarm set off by failing equipment.
Southern Water is the private utility company responsible for the public wastewater collection and treatment in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, West Sussex, East Sussex and Kent, and for the public water supply and distribution in approximately half of this area. Some areas within the Southern Water region are supplied by a number of smaller ...
The water company said customers will notice the impact in their bills which one environmental charity branded ‘outrageous’. Southern Water announce £1.5bn investment to cut sewage spills ...
The scheme is usually set up in response to weather events, but can also be used to cover other circumstances. [2] It is a discretionary scheme which exists to give special financial assistance to local authorities which would otherwise be faced with an undue financial burden as a result of providing relief and carrying out immediate work due to large-scale emergencies.
The work included sand filters to treat the water before it entered a pipeline to Liverpool. The volume of water that this scheme supplied was rather less than that estimated, and the promised constant supply of water to residents reverted to an intermittent supply, as the population expanded and the volume of water used by households increased.
The Southern Water CEO said hundreds of Southern Water employees had responded quickly and made a "huge effort". "But we failed and we let our customers down," he said. "With 58,000 properties ...
The Southern California World Water Forum is a unique partnership of major utility companies, government agencies, and NGOs (non-governmental organizations). Principal partners are the United States Bureau of Reclamation, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los Angeles County Sanitation, and Friends of the United Nations.
Aug. 8—The Lawrence County Conservation District will be creating a mini-grant program in the future with its funding it received from the county from Norfolk Southern. District Manager Mary ...