Dear Friends We thought you might like to see Peter Hammond’s new data released today on sewage discharges outside heavy rainfall conditions – which are shocking. The Environment Agency (2021) used a definition of “heavy rainfall” unchallenged in a criminal case against Southern Water when it pleaded guilty to unlawful sewage pollution of 25-30 mm
WATER INDUSTRY RICH LIST REVEALED: BOSSES PAID £278M IN 11 YEARS AS SECTOR FACES OVERHAUL. Fat cat water company bosses have earned £278m over more than a decade, as hosepipe bans multiply and an independent commission has today called for an overhaul of the privatised industry. Executive pay figures obtained by the Daily Mail
Water companies are wasting five times more water through leaky pipes than even a nationwide hosepipe ban could save, environmental campaigners say. Research by Greenpeace UK found that 2.87bn litres of water a day seep from leaky pipes in England and Wales. That is enough to fill 1,150 Olympic-sized swimming pools and amounts to a fifth of
Guardian piece Severn Trent has doubled the size of a long-term reward scheme for its new chief executive to as much as £3.1m and he could receive significantly more than his predecessor, despite anger over water bosses’ pay. The FTSE 100 water company said its long-term incentive plan (LTIP) would increase from 200% of new