EA permitting water extraction is not protecting our river and environment.
Photo courtesy of Charles Heslett, BBC News, Yorkshire The Environment Agency has granted a drought order for the Wharfe. This will extract
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A cover up for water company neglect in The Times today
Letter to the Editor of The Times in response to an ill informed article about the Sewage Clean Up at Ilkley. You
Nicola Shaw received over £3m in 2 years despite Yorkshire Water’s dreadful pollution performance.
This is our letter to the Chair of Yorkshire Water, Vanda Murray OBE after the Guardian revealed an additional payment of £1.3m
The Bias in Cunliffe ‘Independent’ Review of Water Sector & lack of evidence
The Cunliffe Commission was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime root and branch review of the water sector; a reset to put the
The Water Company Rich List
Published by the Sewage Campaign Network The Water Company Rich List 2025 "These figures are taken from annual reports published on
Campaign Honoured in King’s Birthday Honours
Ilkley Clean River Press Release, 23rd June 2025 Ilkley Clean River Group proudly announces that their chair, Professor Becky Malby, has been
Yorkshire Water CEO and DoF both banned from bonus
The banned bonuses for Yorkshire Water CEO and Director of Finance signals a headache for the executives overseeing shocking performance, under delivery,
Gov Interim report on Water Sector – more bureaucracy little action and a warm up to more failed privatisation
The Government's Independent Commission on Water has been billed as a once in a lifetime review of the water sector. Its interim
Busting the Myth of the ‘Independent’ Water Commission
Windrush Against Sewage Pollution (WASP) with our support has written to Sir Jon Cunliffe to ask him "to express no confidence in
EA spends £5.9M on criminal investigation of Water Companies to date
National Requests <national.requests@environment-agency.gov.uk> 22 March 2025 at 14:05 To: "ilkeycleanriver@gmail.com" <ilkeycleanriver@gmail.com> Good afternoon, RE: Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act