The Latest Breaking News from Environment Agency

The Enivornment Agency has warned that England’s drought could persist into next year

Call for UK ministers to act comes as environment secretary considers ‘national grid for water’

As members of the public and businesses are being urged to use water wisely, Water UK is reminding the public of how they can do their bit, whether in an area affected by drought or not

The Environment Agency's National Drought Group gets together and looks at statistics including rainfall, how much water is left in rivers, reservoirs and lakes

Drought group preparing to meet as Met Office issues highest fire risk warning for much of England

Letters: Karen Lloyd on the Environment Agency’s lack of transparency, and Paul Sedgwick on the misguided moratorium on housebuilding across wide areas of the country

Campaigner Feargal Sharkey says profiteering from firms that dump raw sewage into rivers an ‘obscenity’

Walkers watched in horror as a large section of Sidmouth coastline in Devon crashed onto the beach at 9.15am on Monday. Parts of the cliff face were still tumbling into the sea hours later

The UK had the driest start to a year since the 1970s in 2022, with large parts of southern England receiving less than 50% of their normal winter rainfall. On top of that, southern England recently received just 17% of its average rainfall for July, in what was the country’s…