Latest News
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Lack of meaningful public consultation
Local MP’s have joined Water Matters and Rowlands Castle Parish Council calls for the Planning Inspector to reject the Southern Water Development Consent Order application on the grounds that the consultation was inadequate. For…
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Southern Water backdoor route to pay funders exposed
How does 20% of Southern Water’s income get passed to their funders? The backdoor route through which Southern Water are paying their funders was exposed by Councillor Roger Bird, an accountant and Fareham Borough…
Reference Posts
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HWTWRP July 2024 Public Consultation results
The results are out and make for interesting reading. Look beyond the inevitable marketing spin, much of which looks open to valid challenge, and focus in on the numbers: Click on the image below…
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Dr. Marc Pidou’s presentation on Water Recycling Technologies
On Monday 25 November, we were fortunate to benefit from the knowledge and experience of Dr. Marc Pidou of the Cranfield Water Science Institute, a specialist in water recycling technologies. Over seventy-five minutes of…
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BBC South Today follows our lead on Southern Water’s Sandown plan
A couple of weeks ago, the Water Matters team pointed out that Southern Water’s first reverse osmosis (RO) effluent recycling plant will provide a new final processing stage for the Sandown Wastewater and Sludge…
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‘New Civil Engineer’ article on Southern Water’s procurement activity
This image of Havant’s least-loved visitor attraction is taken from a New Civil Engineer website post dated 24 October. Clearly, Southern Water are trying to make up for the time they lost messing about…
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Littlehampton effluent recycling plant
In the second of two posts, we look at another of the effluent recycling plants that Southern Water has in its plans for the future, based on information published in the current WRMP consultation…
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Sandown IoW – Effluent recycling plant
In the first of two posts, we look at two of the other effluent recycling plants that Southern Water has in its plans for the future, based on information published in the current WRMP…
Community News
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Stop Press! Tonight! – Online talk by Tracey Viney
It’s a miserable wet day out there and in an ideal world, the winter storage reservoirs and available aquifers should be filling up and contributing to next summer’s water supply. In the meantime, stay…
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Southern Water deliberately restricts access to WRMP Environmental & Options Appraisal details
On Thursday 7 November 2024, five members of the ‘Water Matters’ community spent five hours shut in the boardroom on the fourth floor of Southern Water’s HQ, under the watchful gaze of two Southern…
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We need your help – Southern Water are recycling more than sewage!
An important message for all consumers of drinking water across Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and West Sussex. Yes, that means You! Residents around the borough of Havant, where Portsmouth Water’s part-constructed ‘Havant Thicket…
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Sign the petition today!
Once again, we are calling on DEFRA to reject Southern Water’s plan to recycle sewage effluent into drinking water, and to demand they properly explore other cheaper, greener solutions first. Southern Water and Portsmouth…
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‘Water Matters’ – A site refresh
Regular readers will note that the Havant Matters website has been refreshed under a new banner highlighting the fact that ‘Water Matters‘. The driver for this is the publication of Southern Water’s current draft…