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.
Processes intended to decontaminate noxious liquid landfill waste before it enters rivers and sewers have been found to increase the levels of some of the worst toxic chemicals, a study has shown.
The Watershed Pollution Map and the stories it has helped generate have been shortlisted for a British Journalism Award.
Exclusive: The Environment Agency warns it lacks budget to tackle England’s rising number of potential ‘forever chemicals’ locations.
A water company which loses millions of litres of water every day through leaks is planning to ship in water by tanker from Norway.
Residents around a chemicals plant have been told to wash and peel homegrown vegetables before eating while an investigation into potential soil contamination with a cancer-causing chemical PFOA gets under way.
The UK’s worst methane hotspots include the last coalmine, livestock farm clusters, landfills, power plants and North Sea oil and gas wells, according to Watershed's analysis.
Watershed partnered with Cambridge University to lead a multidisciplinary team of early career researchers in a collaborative effort to analyse satellite images and other publicly available data sets.
Watershed is absolutely delighted to have support from the Pulitzer Center. Congratulations to Saroj Pathirana, our new Ocean Pulitzer Fellow who will be investigating global shipping pollution.
Rivers in the Peak District and Exmoor National Parks are more polluted than rivers in London, York, Belfast and Leeds, according to a new study. Out of 45 rivers tested, rivers in England’s National Parks are in the top 3 most contaminated, some at levels that could adversely affect ecological and human health.
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