Joe Crowley

Dec 9, 2024 | businessandamerica.com | Joe Crowley |Jonathan Coffey

One of England’s top-rated water companies is using an accounting trick to artificially inflate its balance sheet by more than a billion pounds, BBC Panorama has discovered. Severn Trent Water claims that an investment is worth £1.68bn in its accounts, when in reality it has no value to the overall business. The made-up money makes the company appear more financially robust and helps to support its bumper payouts to shareholders.

Oct 17, 2024 | envirolink.org | Joe Crowley

From BBC Getty ImagesA water company repeatedly dumped millions of litres of raw sewage illegally into one of England’s most famous lakes over a three-year period, the BBC can reveal. More than 140 million litres of waste were pumped into Windermere between 2021 and 2023 at times when it was not permitted, our analysis shows, and United Utilities failed to report most of it.

May 15, 2024 | aol.com | Joe Crowley

May 15, 2024 at 12:00 PMWindermere is England's largest lake and one of the country's most popular natural attractions [Getty Images]Millions of litres of raw sewage were illegally pumped into one of England's most famous lakes after a fault, the BBC can reveal. United Utilities failed to stop the illegal pollution of Windermere, in the Lake District, for 10 hours in February and did not report the incident to the Environment Agency until 13 hours after it started.

May 14, 2024 | yahoo.com | Joe Crowley

Millions of litres of raw sewage were illegally pumped into one of England's most famous lakes after a fault, documents seen by the BBC have revealed. United Utilities failed to stop the illegal pollution of Windermere, in the Lake District, for 10 hours in February and did not report the incident to the Environment Agency until 13 hours after it started. An almost identical incident occurred at the same location in 2022. The firm says it took urgent steps to resolve the incident in February.

Mar 26, 2024 | irishecho.com | Ray O'Hanlon |Joe Crowley |Colin Harvey |P.J. Cunningham

Clare 1-24 Tipperary 2-13 This game almost broke out into a contest after half-time but quickly retreated into a case of one-way traffic, as had been the case in the first half where Clare totally dominated a subdued and squandermanic Tipp crew at Portlaoise on Sunday afternoon.