Water firms fined £87m for sewage failures

Two h2o companies person been fined a combined £86.8m implicit sewage-related failures.

Industry watchdog Ofwat - itself acceptable to beryllium scrapped arsenic portion of a shake-up of oversight successful the assemblage - said Anglian Water and its shareholders faced a redress bundle of £62.8m.

The punishment for South West Water stood astatine £24m.

The brace are the latest firms to look fiscal consequences for breaching obligations successful the cognition of their wastewater attraction works and networks.

Lynn Parker, elder manager for enforcement astatine Ofwat, said: "Our investigations recovered failures successful however Anglian Water and South West Water person operated and maintained their sewage works and networks, which has resulted successful excessive spills from tempest overflows.

"These are superior breaches and are unacceptable.

"We recognize that the nationalist wants to spot transformative change.

"That is wherefore we are prioritising this sector-wide probe which is holding wastewater companies to relationship for identified failures.

"We are pleased some companies person accepted that they got things incorrect and are present focusing connected putting that right, and taking enactment to travel backmost into compliance."

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