It has also emerged that Thames Water’s desalination plant, at Beckton, east London, which was built to deliver up to 100 million litres of water a day in dry weather events, is currently out of ...

Richmond Council announced via social media at 1.18pm on Sunday, October 20: "A section of the Thames towpath between Richmond Lock and Kew Gardens car park has collapsed into the river.

So, at last, I'm standing in the River Thames, and we found flowing water. But we had to drive eight miles from the original source towards London to be able to find it.

THE Water Committee of the London County Council in December, 1902, called upon their chief engineer for a report on the diminution of the volume of water in the Thames and Lea, and his report was ...

News; UK News; Heatwave; River Thames source completely dries up 'for first time' as parts of UK hit by drought Pictures from the mouth of the spot in the Cotswold reveal the exposed river bed ...

However, a report by the LDRS last year found that Thames Water may not take action to protect the river from sewage until ...

London has a combined sewer system, which means sewage and rain flow into the same pipes. Storms frequently overwhelmed the system, spilling around 40 million tons of sewage into the Thames annually.

River Action has warned that the Thames would be classified as ‘poor’ under regulations if it were designated as a ‘bathing water’ site.

The river flow at Teddington Weir is high for this time of year at 130 cubic metres per second and is rising. We anticipate the flows to remain high for the next few days." Get more news from ...