Water Advisory Services

Water Pollution

Protecting the water environment from pollution is a key part of government legislation across the world.

Understanding pollution history and providing strategies to mitigate against watercourse pollution and predicting sewer network failures can enable pollution prevention and avoid significant financial penalties.

Regardless of the source, we identify pollution and compliance risks for our clients, through catchment scale surveillance monitoring, sampling and laboratory testing, spatial risk analysis, targeted pollutant monitoring, and detailed mathematical modelling of sewers, upstream catchments and receiving waters. By considering social implications alongside environmental and economic concerns, we ensure that our clients' investments are sustainable and pragmatic.

Look at some of the ways in which we have achieved this for our clients. Get in touch with our water specialists

The Big Pollution Question: summaries and lessons from our Round Table forum

19 Jan 2023

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Combined sewer overflows: a roadmap to zero pollution

28 Jul 2021

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EDM and SOAF – Data Quality and Assessment

25 Oct 2021

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Emerging and Forgotten Challenges? Pollution and pressure

09 Mar 2023

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Overflow performance in Scotland – A different approach

28 Nov 2021

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Water and Sewerage Companies (WASC) Environmental Reporting – Transparency around pollution

10 Nov 2021

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WaterNet® Pro

WaterNet Pro™ is a spatial asset management reporting and analysis platform typically used for the regulatory reporting of leakage, water balance and sewer flooding.

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Our projects related to pollution

Water Insight Brochure

Lessons learned from a large scale Water Framework Directive (WFD) programme. The Water Framework Directive (WFD) introduced a holistic approach to the management of water quality. In the UK the aim is to have waterbodies achieving ‘Good’ ecological status by 2027. There are five status classifications for normal waterbodies: High, Good, Moderate, Poor and Bad. Intermittent discharges from Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO’s) and Storm tanks have the potential to influence compliance with the WFD, as they are a source of polluting materials.