Sewage regularly dumped illegally in England and Wales rivers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60040162
We just don't have any meaningful accountability for anything really do we? These kinds of crimes, if dealt with at all, just end up with a company fine passed on to the customers. All the water companies 'agree' that there is an 'urgent need' to stop it, but nobody is accountable. Individuals from Chief Execs downwards ought to be personally responsible for these crimes, whether that be salary-based fines, or in the worst cases jail time.
Nothing will ever get better until the corruption stops and personal responsibility becomes something to be proud of.
'It found seven water companies in England and Wales discharged untreated sewage into rivers and the sea more than 3,000 times between 2017 and 2021'
'Chairman Philip Dunne MP said self-monitoring by water companies had "allowed a blind eye to be turned" to unpermitted sewage discharges'
'Mr Dunne said water regulator Ofwat should look at its powers to review those water bosses who receive "lofty bonuses". '
'"In some cases, multiple sewage works are spilling into the same river causing damage for long periods of time, sometimes spilling as long as four months, six months almost without a break,"'
'Prof Hammond said the Environment Agency is failing to detect thousands of illegal spills because it is not scrutinising the available data closely enough.
''It's as if the Environment Agency is looking through a telescope and we're looking through a microscope."
Water UK, which represents the water companies, said all the water companies agree there is an ''urgent need for action to tackle the harm caused to the environment by overflows".' |  |
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