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At this time of year, you might see a creamy brown scum on seas, rivers and lakes caused by algae. It often smells of rotting eggs or vegetables and it can easily be confused with sewage. Here’s how to tell the difference.

Water users in The Solent are benefitting from a new lifeboat after Southern Water teamed up with a life-saving charity. 

Work to increase the capacity of West Wellow Wastewater Treatment Works near Romsey is underway, in an effort to further reduce the use of storm overflows. 

We are repairing a burst pressurised sewer at Terminus Road, Cowes caused by a blockage of unflushable materials.

Southern Water has launched its first ever 25-year Drainage and Wastewater Management Plan (DWMP), which sets out how billions of pounds of investment could be spent to improve the way we capture and treat wastewater.

In the early hours of Saturday 27th May our Station Road Whitstable Wastewater Pumping Station experienced a technical failure which resulted in a release through our storm overflow pipe for a very short period of time.

Our teams worked hard overnight to fix a burst main in the Horsham area.