2022/2023 Newsletter – Further reading

This page contains further explanatory notes for many of the articles in the 2022/2023 Newsletter, particularly those which would benefit from additional reference links to external websites. A table of contents below this image will take you directly to sections with the appropriate newsletter heading.

(Please note, this page is currently being updated with further links, please check back again shortly)

  1. Pollution and water quality
    1. Pollution from the river basins
    2. Brittany’s ‘Green Tides’ – a future threat to the Solent?
    3. Water Quality – The regulatory authorities and related government initiatives
  2. Southern Water – ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’
    1. Southern Water’s Performance and response to regulation
    2. Southern Water’s ‘Pathfinder’ projects
    3. ‘Water for life’ – Desalination replaced by equally disruptive Water Recycling
  3. Planning and development
    1. Proposed changes to planning policy
    2. Tipner West development proposals
    3. Norris Castle Planning Application
    4. Victoria Pier planning application
    5. Bembridge Harbour planning approval
    6. Fawley Waterside development
  4. Climate change adaptation
    1. How is the coastal environment changing?
    2. An update on works in progress
    3. Understanding the risks
  5. The Solent Freeport
  6. England Coast Path update
  7. Membership

Pollution and water quality

Pollution from the river basins

The map of the river catchments and the detail behind the first paragraph on this article is the work of Dr. Ian West, visiting scientist with Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton and Senior Fellow of the Geological Society of London. Dr. West’s rich online source of detail relating to the geology of the Wessex coastline can be found by taking this link.

Brittany’s ‘Green Tides’ – a future threat to the Solent?

Water Quality – The regulatory authorities and related government initiatives

The array of UK Government departments, related ‘QUANGO’s and their initiatives aimed at monitoring the environment and the water utilities is bewildering and constantly expanding, evidenced by the recent creation of the Office for Environmental Protection.

Please either click the image above, or select this link, to read a page on which we keep track of the various UK Government departments, monitoring bodies, industry initiatives and related ‘Quangos’ which are directly or indirectly active in matters of water quality.

The length of this list may go some way towards explaining our frustration with the lack of urgency and questionable
strength of the regulatory response. With the water companies operating as commercial businesses primarily accountable to their shareholders, our concerns are shared by many other environmental groups.

Southern Water – ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’

Southern Water’s Performance and response to regulation

Southern Water’s ‘Pathfinder’ projects

‘Water for life’ – Desalination replaced by equally disruptive Water Recycling

Planning and development

Proposed changes to planning policy

Tipner West development proposals

Norris Castle Planning Application

Victoria Pier planning application

Bembridge Harbour planning approval

Fawley Waterside development

Climate change adaptation

How is the coastal environment changing?

An update on works in progress

Understanding the risks

The Solent Freeport

England Coast Path update

Membership

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