Independent journalism on water, public health and the environment
WATERSHED partners with national and international media to run high impact investigations covering all issues affecting the freshwater and marine environment.
A first-of-its-kind analysis of the UK and Europe’s landfills has revealed that tens of thousands are located in flood-prone zones, areas used for drinking water, or in sensitive conservation sites. Watershed Investigations and Investigate Europe found that many of the 60,000 sites mapped are at risk of leaking toxic waste, posing threats to fragile ecosystems. […]
“I just kept smelling this horrible, nasty smell…like animal excrement and I was wondering what it was,” says Jess Brown, a young mum living in Fleetwood, Lancashire. Beyond the bad smells, we reveal the landfills which appear to be leaching toxic chemicals into the environment. See our reports on UK landfills in the Guardian and […]
Illegal waste is piling up across the UK — with at least 8,000 rogue sites hiding 13 million tonnes of rubbish. That’s not just £1.63bn in avoided landfill tax, it’s also a massive loophole in environmental protection.
A collected list of Watershed's PFAS work and a summary of our long-term relationship with PFAS, including multiple exclusives across the media landscape.
Day Zero, sometimes known as the Jaws of Death, is the time when a city or country runs out of drinking water. When the taps run dry and the standpipes or tankers are deployed.
Tensions are growing between the government, the water sector and its regulators over the management of England’s water supplies, as the Environment Agency warns of a potential widespread drought next year.
Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK.
The Environment Agency has released England’s latest bathing water classifications and Defra says that 87% of bathing waters are rated Excellent or Good, but the devil is in the detail.
The drinking water watchdog for England and Wales has ordered companies to act after “forever chemicals” linked to cancer and other conditions were found in untreated water sources at levels it said “could constitute a potential danger to human health”.
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