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Northumbrian Water

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Parent organizationsNorthumbrian Water Group
Ceo Heidi Mottram
Revenue821. 6 million GBP (2017)
Number of employees3,128
Founders Parliament of the United Kingdom
HeadquartersPity Me
Durham
United Kingdom
Durham
United Kingdom
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About Northumbrian Water


Northumbrian Water Limited is a water company in the United Kingdom, providing mains water and sewerage services in the English counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Durham and parts of North Yorkshire, and also supplying water as Essex and Suffolk Water.

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... Thames Water, United Utilities, Anglian Water, Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water are all set to have cases brought against them after Severn Trent...

Water companies say sorry over spilling raw sewage

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... The water companies - Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, Severn Trent Water, South West Water, Southern Water, Thames Water, United Utilities Water, Wessex Water and Yorkshire Water - said they were ready to invest £10bn to upgrade their sewage infrastructure and also establish 100 new swimming areas...

Protests over water firms dumping sewage in rivers

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Apr 23,2022 5:10 pm

... Each protest targeted a separate water company: •Edinburgh - Scottish Water •Tynemouth - Northumbrian Water •Belfast - Northern Ireland Water •Scarborough - Yorkshire Water •Bath - Wessex Water •Manningtree, Essex - Anglian Water •Worthing - Southern Water •Newquay - South West Water •Abergavenny - Welsh Water •Victoria Embankment Garden, London - Thames Water •Stoke Bardolph, Nottinghamshire - Severn Trent •New Brighton Beach, Wirral - United UtilitiesNic Bury, professor of environmental toxicology at the University of Suffolk, is running a project looking at E...

Why are water bills rising more in some areas?

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... Which water companies have seen higher rises? Of, customers of Northumbrian Water (10...

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... " Given how difficult it was to communicate with Northern Powergrid and Northumbrian Water, I would not have wanted to stand outside at the one point that we sometimes get a [mobile] signal, " she said...

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... Local authority staff, County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service, Durham Police, the Mountain Rescue Service and Northumbrian Water have been providing support, along with other volunteers, the council said...

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Protests over water firms dumping sewage in rivers

Feb 16,2020 2:46 am

Thousands of people have taken to rivers and waterways to protest against water companies dumping sewage in them.

The Day of action, organised by The Charity Surfers Against Sewage, involves 12 protests across the UK.

In Manningtree, Essex , wild swimmers marched and dressed up in mermaid and giant poo costumes by the River Stour .

Anglian Water , which admitted it dumped sewage in The River 389 times Last Year , said it was investing millions of pounds to rectify the " historic issue".

Catherine Arnold, a nutritional therapist who helped organised the Manningtree protest, said: " We Are So Lucky To Live in an area of outstanding natural beauty and we need to protect it. We don't release sewage into our gardens, why would we release it into our rivers? "

Water companies discharged raw sewage into British rivers 372,533 times Last Year , for a total of More Than 2. 6m hours, according to data from the Environment Agency .

Untreated sewage is only meant to be discharged into rivers in exceptional circumstances, for example, during heavy rainfall.

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Each protest targeted a separate water company:

Edinburgh - Scottish Water

Tynemouth - Northumbrian Water

Belfast - Northern Ireland Water

Scarborough - Yorkshire Water

Bath - Wessex Water

•Manningtree, Essex - Anglian Water

Worthing - Southern Water

Newquay - South West Water

Abergavenny - Welsh Water

•Victoria Embankment Garden, London - Thames Water

•Stoke Bardolph, Nottinghamshire - Severn Trent

•New Brighton Beach , Wirral - United Utilities

Nic Bury, professor of environmental toxicology at the University of Suffolk, is running a project looking at E. coli counts in rivers. A sample he took in Manningtree showed an E. coli count of 1000cfu/100ml. The threshold for good bathing water is less than 500cfu/100ml.

He Said : " The Situation is quite bad. Every Time I sample in The River I'm shocked about the lack of biodiversity so I'm very concerned about it. "

Campaigner Anna Helm Baxter, who organised the Manningtree protest, said The Situation was " completely unacceptable".

" It's essential to keep up the pressure on the water companies and the government, who need to not only create stronger policies, and shorter timelines, but also make sure that they enforce their own rules, " she added.

'Riddled with sewage'

The government announced last month.

Hugo Tagholm, CEO of Surfers Against Sewage, said it did not go far enough. The Charity is calling for an end to sewage discharge into British bathing waters by 2030.

He Said British rivers had become pollution superhighways " riddled with sewage, chemicals and filth".

" The River and beach-loving public have had enough, " He Said . " Water companies must make urgent investments, funded from their vast profits, to turn off their filthy pollution tap and restore our rivers and seas. "

An Anglian Water spokesperson said: " Data from our 2021 monitoring programme tells us our performance continues to improve, and the increasing visibility we have of combined sewer overflow (CSO) activity gives us even more opportunities to act faster in the areas where we can have most environmental benefit.

" But we agree that CSOs are no longer an acceptable way of dealing with flooding and overloaded sewers and we need to do more. "



Source of news: bbc.com

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