Scottish Water
| Use attributes for filter ! | |
| Headquarters | Dunfermline |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Ceo | Douglas Millican |
| Revenue | 1 billion GBP |
| Founded | April 2002 |
| Production output | 1. 34 Gl/day (drinking) |
| Type of business | Statutory corporation |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 2044060 |
About Scottish Water
Scottish Water is a statutory corporation that provides water and sewerage services across Scotland. It is accountable to the public through the Scottish Government.
UK weather: Last day of ice warnings before temperatures soar
... Scottish Water said it had seen as sub zero temperatures tuned to a rapid thaw - leading to an extra 100 million litres of water a day passing through the pipes...
Bird poo pollution posters at Scottish beaches challenged by experts
... " Edinburgh sewage Sewage treated by Scottish Water is discharged into the Firth of Forth estuary via pipes...
Cancer screening led me to invent dissolving wet wipes
... " Scottish Water, which deals with 36,000 sewer blockages each year - 90% of which feature wet wipes - says " any innovation in this area is of course welcomed, especially if it reduces the impact people s behaviours have on the planet"...
Protests over water firms dumping sewage in rivers
... 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...
Storm Arwen: Third night of no power for thousands
... " Scottish Water has distributed bottled water across some areas of Aberdeenshire...
Edinburgh's little stone buildings hiding water secrets
... Although they have no practical use now, they remain intact and are looked after by Scottish Water...
Cairngorms loch dropped to lowest level in '750 years'
... Loch Vaa at its usual water level Scottish Water countered claims it might be responsible by saying that an underground aquifer and boreholes that supplied water to the Badenoch and Strathspey area were located about three miles (6km) upstream of Loch Vaa, and too far away to affect it...
The little-known world of the water-taster
... smell and tasteScottish Water says it is already strict security checks has survived, before it is run through the taps, and again, if the samples come from the laboratory...
Protests over water firms dumping sewage in rivers
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.
The Bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites.Each protest targeted a separate water company:
•Tynemouth - Northumbrian Water
•Belfast - Northern Ireland Water
•Scarborough - Yorkshire Water
•Bath - Wessex Water
•Manningtree, Essex - Anglian Water
•Newquay - South West 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
