The cost of water bills will go up in the next few years, the industry regulator Ofwat confirmed.
The average bill will go up 36% but how much extra billpayers will be charged depends on what part of England or Wales you live in, and which water company supplies you. The sums are below what the firms had requested but not far off. In 2023 there were over 582,000 discharges of untreated sewage into UK rivers, totalling