A water company has pumped untreated sewage into England’s largest lake for eight consecutive days.

Storm overflows at two water treatment plants have continuously discharged into sites that flow into Windermere, in the Lake District, since Aug 22.

Singer and clean water campaigner Feargal Sharkey has criticised a water company after untreated sewage was continually discharged into a lake for eight days.

The Lake District National Park Authority is reviewing a planning application that could significantly impact the health of Windermere. This application proposes increasing the sewage load directed to a decommissioned wastewater treatment plant, despite the existing cesspit's history of overflow problems. We need your help to hold the LDNPA accountable.

Untreated sewage was continuously discharged into a Site of Special Scientific Interest for seven days.

Storm overflows at two water treatment plants in Cumbria have been discharging into sites that flow into Windermere since last Thursday, United Utilities figures show.

We are on a ship, heading towards an iceberg, and the captain and crew have no interest in changing course. This is the trajectory that Steve Reed, OFWAT, and DEFRA are on, despite the public's overwhelming desire to overhaul England’s failing water industry.

Matt Staniek cannot stop thinking about sewage. The director of the Save Windermere campaign has been working for three years to prevent waste flooding into England’s largest lake.

Without regulatory reforms and proper funding, the country will lack a muscular enforcer to strike fear among polluters

Sewage-spilling water companies will no longer be able to justify high chief executive pay by getting “top marks” in the Environment Agency’s rankings, under plans to tighten rules.

Samples taken by the Save Windermere campaign last month at Ambleside showed cyanobacteria concentrations above WHO guidance for recreational use of the lake

A 100-metre-wide algal bloom left an area of Windermere unfit for bathing, tests have revealed, as campaigners blamed United Utilities for continually dumping sewage.

All 11 water and wastewater companies in England and Wales are now under scrutiny over sewage spills, after the regulator said it was expanding its investigation.

As part of our ongoing scientific monitoring of Windermere, we undertook sampling of a localised but extensive algal bloom at Waterhead on 25th June 2024. The cyanobacteria concentrations exceeded the World Health Organisation (WHO) limits for recreational use of the lake.