Water in England

The largest artificial lake in the UK by capacity, built to supply industrial demand in north east England that never fully mate…

One of the largest reservoirs in England by surface area, a pumped storage reservoir filled from the Rivers Nene and Welland rat…

The dominant groundwater resource of southern and eastern England, supplying a large share of public water in the region and fee…

The outbreak in Soho, London, that John Snow traced to a single contaminated water pump — establishing that cholera is waterborn…

The summer in which the untreated sewage of London, discharged directly to the Thames, became unbearable at Westminster — and Pa…

Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate were discharged into the wrong tank at Lowermoor treatment works, entering the supply servin…

The benchmark British drought of the instrumental record: sixteen months of exceptional dryness ending in the hottest summer the…

The driest summer in England since 1976, in which the National Drought Group declared drought across most of the country, severa…

A drought that brought Yorkshire close to running out of water, with tankering between reservoirs and standpipes prepared, despi…

A Cryptosporidium outbreak in the Brixham area of south Devon caused by contamination entering the local supply network.

Environment Agency / Crown Court action against Southern Water: Thousands of illegal discharges of untreated sewage from wastewa…

Environment Agency / Crown Court action against Thames Water: Repeated discharges of untreated sewage into the Thames and its tr…

Ofwat action against Yorkshire Water: Failures in the operation and management of wastewater treatment works and storm overflows.

Natural mineral water from Buxton, Derbyshire, from a spring rising at a constant 27 °C. Total dissolved solids around 280 mg/l.

Purified water from Spring water, subsequently vapour distilled and remineralised with electrolytes. Total dissolved solids arou…

Natural mineral water from Test Valley, Hampshire. Total dissolved solids around 312 mg/l.

The largest wastewater treatment works in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in Europe, treating the sewage of a large pa…

A 25 km storage and transfer tunnel beneath the Thames built to intercept combined sewer overflow discharges that Bazalgette’s V…

A proposed large pumped-storage reservoir in Oxfordshire, intended to underpin water supply for London and the south east throug…

A proposed reservoir in Cambridgeshire to support growth in the driest part of the UK, where existing chalk groundwater abstract…

A proposed reservoir intended to add regional resilience in eastern England.

The first new reservoir in southern England for decades, filled with surplus spring water and supporting reduced abstraction fro…

A proposed transfer of treated effluent-derived water along the Grand Union Canal from the Midlands to the south east.

Large-scale mains replacement and leakage reduction programme under the 2025–2030 regulatory period.