If you are a homeowner, you’ll be familiar with drainage problems, from simple sink blockages where the water doesn’t drain away due to foodstuffs blocking the plughole, to toilet blockages where the water in the pan isn’t taken away when you flush the chain. In most of these situations the homeowner themselves can usually remedy [...]

The latest Good Beach Guide has just been released and a record number of beaches have been given the top award for water quality. In 2011 461 beaches out of a total of 754 beaches were given excellent status; however this year 516 achieved the accolade. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has applauded the attempts [...]

Thames Water have carried out a comprehensive CCTV survey of a road in south east London after a huge crater appeared in the road surface. The crater appeared a couple of weeks ago in Stoney Street in Southwark, resulting in a section of the road being cordoned off while investigation works took place. The sudden [...]

Residents in Tilehurst are celebrating after Thames Water announced that they are going to spend over £1m on a sewer enlargement scheme. The sewer scheme, which will see sewers in City Road, Hildens drive and Foxcombe drive all be replaced with larger diameter pipes, will stop sewage backing up in people’s homes and gardens after [...]

A Thames Water sewage pumping station has leaked sewage into a dry river bed in Whittonditch. The sewage leaked from the tank early last week and affected a field next to the river Aldbourne near Ramsbury. It isn’t the first time that sewage has leaked from the same pumping station, a similar incident happened four [...]