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‘Disgraceful’ quantity of sewage nonetheless being dumped in English rivers, says surroundings secretary

By Editorial Board Published March 27, 2025 5 Min Read
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‘Disgraceful’ quantity of sewage nonetheless being dumped in English rivers, says surroundings secretary

The quantity of sewage being dumped into English rivers stays “disgraceful”, regardless of improved monitoring, supposed funding by water corporations and threats of penalties from authorities, the newest knowledge reveals.

General, there was a 2.9% lower within the variety of sewage spills final 12 months in comparison with 2023, in keeping with water firm knowledge collected and analysed by the Surroundings Company.

Regardless of this small enchancment within the variety of occasions, the length of spills – the period of time a water remedy plant discharges untreated sewage right into a river or the ocean – elevated by 0.2%.

“This year’s data shows we are still a long way off where we need to be to stop unnecessary sewage pollution,” mentioned Alan Lovell, chair of the Surroundings Company.

The EA says it has secured £10.2bn from water corporations to cut back sewage dumping.

“While these improvements get under way, we expect water companies to do what customers pay it to do: ensure their existing assets are maintained and operating properly,” mentioned Mr Lovell.

‘Stark reminder’

“These figures are disgraceful and are a stark reminder of how years of underinvestment have led to water companies discharging unacceptable levels of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas,” mentioned Surroundings Secretary Steve Reed.

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The federal government says a part of its £100bn public infrastructure funding plans will deal with water air pollution.

However repairing or changing hundreds of miles of ageing water pipes and dilapidated water remedy works, in addition to constructing new ones, is predicted to take a long time.

This 12 months it additionally launched the Water (Particular Measures) Act which it mentioned it will use to get “tough” on water corporations.

The invoice permits for the banning of bonuses for water firm bosses failing to satisfy targets and permits prison fees to be introduced in opposition to corporations in breach of the legislation.

The federal government, nonetheless, could quickly discover itself within the stink.

Final week, surroundings watchdog the Workplace for Environmental Safety (OEP) introduced it was launching an investigation into whether or not Defra’s proposed plans to wash up waterways are in breach of the legislation.

The OEP is to resolve whether or not Defra’s plans, applied by the Surroundings Company and the water regulator Ofwat, are too generic and fail to handle the environmental danger of sewage air pollution at explicit websites.

England, for instance, is dwelling to nearly all of the world’s chalk stream rivers and streams which are notably delicate to sewage air pollution.

‘Nonetheless damaged’

For clear water campaigners, the newest knowledge is simply extra of the identical.

“The water industry is still broken,” mentioned James Wallace, chief government of River Motion.

He added: “The numbers are staggering: over 3.6 million hours of sewage spills from almost 450,000 discharges.

“That is equal to 412 steady years of sewage polluting our rivers, lakes and seas.”

The frustration for customers is that many people will see vital will increase to our payments in an effort to finance the investments being demanded by Ofwat and the federal government to satisfy air pollution targets.

Final 12 months, an unbiased Water Fee was launched by the federal government.

Led by Sir Jon Cunliffe, it’s charged with developing with long-term reforms for the best way water corporations are regulated.

The fee ought to take a look at the construction and possession of water corporations themselves, in keeping with campaigners.

“[It] must put an end to this failed privatisation experiment and force real reform of the industry and regulators,” mentioned Mr Wallace.

“We need to learn from our European neighbours, and use finance and governance models that put people and nature before investors.”

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