Wondering what’s in your water? Now you can find out. Watershed has created a first-of-its-kind Pollution Map revealing a huge range of potential pollution sources that can harm rivers, lakes, groundwater, coasts and more.

Rishi Sunak is running for a constituency that has ranked in the top 10 for potential water pollution, reports The Independent, using Watershed's Pollution Map.

Thousands of old landfills littered across the country potentially leaking toxic ooze and vapours are more likely to be found in deprived areas, our analysis of the sites from our new WATERSHED POLLUTION MAP reveals.

Whistleblowers say UK water companies are knowingly failing to treat legally required amounts of sewage, and that some treatment works are manipulating wastewater systems to divert raw sewage away from the works and into rivers and seas.

Rapidly rising levels of TFA, a class of “forever chemical” thought to damage fertility and child development, are being found in drinking water, blood and rain, causing alarm among experts.

The work of the Forever Pollution Project, of which Watershed is a part, has been published in the scientific journal, Environmental Science and Technology. It sets out the methodology used to map PFAS contamination across Europe.

Decaying oil and gas pipelines left to fall apart in the North Sea could release large volumes of poisons such as mercury, radioactive lead and polonium-210.

Industry could be producing more cancer-causing PCB chemicals today than at any other point in history, despite their production having been banned more than 40 years ago.

Watershed has worked with the ENDS Report to produce a new film 'TOXIC: Britain's forever poisoned rivers and seas'. The film can be viewed at endsreport.com/toxic and reveals PFAS pollution hotspots across England, particularly in the Mersey and Wyre.

A major investigation focused on widespread pollution by ‘forever chemicals’ called PFAS. It launched on the front page of the Guardian and involved seven stories over three days.

Watershed has published three new podcast episodes: 'Why hundreds of toxic road runoff outfalls are polluting England's rivers', 'Gaza's water crisis', and 'Toxic: Britian's forever polluted rivers and seas'.

For the Sunday Times, Watershed mapped the demands on the seabed around Britain from energy companies to industrial fishing to conservation, highlighting the need for each of the interests to work together to create a win-win for climate, wildlife and people.  

Watershed's article in The Times reports that cancer-causing chemical loads flowing through the River Mersey catchment are among the largest recorded in the world and most of it is coming from sewage works. 

Watershed was 'highly commended' at British Journalism Awards, in the organisation's first year of operation.

PFAS found in hundreds of drinking water samples across England has been categorised as carcinogenic by the  World Health Organisation. The move will increase pressure on the UK government to take action on “forever chemicals”.

The Environment Agency has slashed its water-use inspections by almost a half over the past five years, according to data obtained by Watershed.

Potentially toxic “forever chemicals” have been detected in the drinking water sources at 17 of 18 England’s water companies, with 11,853 samples testing positive, something experts say they are “extremely alarmed” by.

The government quietly released partial data on the health of England's water bodies, opting not to undertake any testing for problem chemicals, or to assess the condition of any groundwater, coastal, estuary or canal waters until 2025.

A scientific paper based on the Forever Pollution Project on PFAS was published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters.

Rachel Salvidge gave a speech on chemical threats to rivers and seas at the Labour Party Conference, alongside shadow environment minister Ruth Jones and Francesca Ginley from the Marine Conservation Society at an event hosted by Labour's environment campaign, SERA. 

England faces an ecological disaster if a severe drought strikes, with water companies turning to rivers to avoid drinking water shortages. Analysis of water companies' plans reveals huge shortfall in the case of severe drought if no action is taken.

Watershed's PFAS investigation was the subject of the award-winning BBC Costing the Earth documentary.

Acceptable levels of “forever chemicals” in drinking water should be reduced tenfold and a new national chemicals agency created to protect public health, the Royal Society of Chemistry has told the UK government.

A toxic cocktail of damaging chemicals created by road pollution is flowing into England’s rivers and no regulator is monitoring the scale of its impact on wildlife or public health.

Watershed is honoured to feature on the Lewis Pugh Foundation's River Warriors list of people who "dedicate themselves to restoring, protecting, recognising and defending our precious river systems".

Cape Town teeters on the edge of Day Zero - the time when water will no longer flow from its taps. Cape Town residents say they are desperate, and Professor Hannah Cloke says 'elites' are exacerbating the climate change driven water crisis.

Watershed appeared on BBC News to discuss raw sewage dumping into rivers and on a separate occasion to explain why the Office for Environmental Protection has announced that Defra, the Environment Agency and Ofwat may have all failed to comply with the law.

Pollution from farms has prevented housing developments being approved by 35 councils, analysis by The Times and Watershed reveals. 

Exclusive: A chemicals company is releasing large quantities of a PFAS “forever chemical” described as being “very persistent, mobile and toxic” into the River Wyre in Lancashire each year, and is not breaking any rules. 

Watershed worked with the Guardian and ITV News to expose high levels of E coli in oysters around the country. “Very high” levels of E coli found in oysters and mussels have led to the closure of 11 shellfish production zones in Cornwall.

Data obtained by Watershed Investigations shows PFAS 'forever chemicals' in England’s wild fish at high levels.

Watershed Investigations takes to the Thames for Sky News' Climate Show to talk about their investigations into PFAS pollution in drinking water, rivers, sediments and fish.

Rachel and Leana interview Nyombi Morris who was flooded out of his home in Uganda, where drought and locusts are also causing death and displacement. Then Sir David King, former chief scientific adviser to prime ministers Blair, Brown, Cameron and May, explains how he plans to reverse the climate crisis by refreezing the Arctic.

Water is being overlooked in climate planning and funding, experts have said, despite half the world’s population facing acute water stress by 2030. The UN Secretary-General said “vampiric overuse” and pollution are draining the “precious lifeblood” while climate change is “wreaking havoc”.

More than 17 000 sites all over Europe are contaminated by the 'forever chemicals' PFAS, an exclusive, months-long investigation from 18 European newsrooms. Watershed sourced multiple datasets and performed its own sampling to build up the UK picture.

Tales from the frontline of the water crisis. Each episode includes an interview with someone experiencing the crisis first hand, followed by an interview with a world class expert, exploring the causes and possible solutions.

Pressure is building on UK ministers to tighten regulations on PFAS “forever chemicals” as Watershed's research shows vast numbers of people are drinking water with levels that would be banned in the US.

Water from a supply containing high levels of toxic chemicals was pumped into the homes of more than 1,000 people. Cambridge Water admitted it removed a supply containing four times the regulatory limit of perfluorooctane sulphonate (PFOS), which was being blended with other supplies to provide water to the homes of customers in south Cambridgeshire.

Internazionale Magazine, the global current affairs weekly, picks up Watershed's PFAS work from the Forever Pollution Project. The article look at the most common sources of exposure to the potential consequences for human health and the environment.

Untreated sewage was dumped into England's rivers at least 372,544 times in 2021. Exposes of key elements of the sewage scandal, such as how the Environment Agency knew raw sewage was being illegally dumped into rivers, lakes and seas a decade ago.

A family that has been fighting for seven years to prove that hydrogen cyanide from a landfill killed their son received a boost when incident logs from Public Health England apparently backing their claims were uncovered, prompting a local council to commit to taking a fresh look at the land surrounding the family’s home.

Watershed looks at PFAS pollution and why the UK is lagging behind the EU and the US in tackling the problem