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Sandra Laville

Sandra Laville is environment correspondent for the Guardian

January 2025

  • A glass of water on top of a Southern Water bill.

    Water bills in England and Wales to rise by £123 on average this year

  • Two parked Thames Water vans alongside an employee

    Water industry promises £22bn of environmental investment, funded by rising bills

  • River water

    Water firm river pollution fines must be spent on rivers, MPs to say

  • Thames Water sewage treatment works entrance

    Water companies in England ‘use greenwashing playbook to hide environmental harm’

  • Legal challenges to infrastructure plans to be blocked in Starmer growth push

  • ‘Appalling’: charities warn of UK government betrayal over river clean-up fund

  • Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries

  • Ministers to appeal against river pollution ruling won by Yorkshire anglers

  • Charges against 34 people dropped over plastic pollution protest at Unilever HQ

  • Thailand bans imports of plastic waste to curb toxic pollution

  • Researchers seek to expand ‘citizen scientist’ testing of UK river quality

  • Embankment of 18th-century canal in Cheshire collapses after flooding

December 2024

  • Demonstrators gather for a protest against Thames Water in London<br>Demonstrators gather for a protest against Thames Water, ahead of the hearing on a rescue loan for Thames Water, in London, Britain, December 17, 2024. REUTERS/Mina Kim

    Thames Water wins court approval to secure ‘critical’ £3bn cash lifeline

    Decision came after protesters called on judges to block a financial bailout they say will cost customers £250 a year
  • Posters of a closing down sale in the City of London.

    Business live
    Company insolvencies rise across England and Wales; interest rate cuts less likely after UK pay growth accelerates – as it happened

    UK wage growth has risen to 5.2% per year, making Bank of England highly likely to leave interest rates on hold on Thursday

    • Swimming status of Ilkley’s River Wharfe in limbo over sewage pollution

    • Water firms push for higher shareholder returns as Ofwat considers bills increase

    • Countries call for binding targets to cut plastic production after talks fail

November 2024

  • Activists with a banner and a large pile of blue-coloured plastic in front of them

    Plastics lobbyists make up biggest group at vital UN treaty talks

    Fossil fuel and chemical industry representatives outnumber those of the EU or host country South Korea
  • Aerial image of flooded caravans beside a river

    Storm Bert offers stark reminder of UK’s underfunded flood defences

    Spending shortfall has seen 500 of 2,000 new protection projects abandoned despite growing severity of disasters
  • Swimmers in the river surrounded by trees and fields

    Record number of English bathing sites classified as having poor water quality

    River water quality distinctly worse than that of coastal bathing sites, results from tests for harmful bacteria found
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