Serious sewage spills up 60 per cent in last year – with one company responsible for more than a third of incidents
Environmental Agency (EA), serious water pollution incidents increased by 60 percent last year, he said.
The latest data of the UK showed that Thames Water, Southern Water and Yorkshire water were behind 81 percent of cases, but he added that “continuous weak performance ında in all nine water companies.
Meanwhile, only two companies – Northumbrian Water and Wessex Water – there was no serious incident last year, and the environmental institutions met the expectations of the environmental institutions to see a tendency for zero pollution events until 2025.
Thames Water made up 33 of the 75 serious events recorded by EA – more than one third of the total.
In general, the guard said that all pollution incidents increased by 29 percent and water companies recorded 2,801 from 2,174 in 2023.
Each year, it transforms pollution from water companies into categories, category 1 (major) and category 2 (important) is the most serious.
EA, which entered the fire for pollution performance supervision from water companies, said that they are “especially worried about the increase in the loss of pipes that carry waste water uphill.
The reasons behind the results of the 2024 were given as a reduced flexibility due to new infrastructure, weak asset care and the effects of climate change.
“This report shows continuous systemic failure for some companies to meet their environmental targets.
“The water industry should act urgently to prevent pollution from occurring and to respond quickly when it occurs.
“We have made significant changes to tighten the regulation of the water industry and to ensure that companies are taken into account. With a larger labor and increasing financing, our officers reveal and move their failures to comply with environmental law.”
In the meantime, MPs, the sector’s unsuccessful infrastructure to expand and pollution to take customer bills to increase the water companies in the need for a “complete revision” said.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said that the government should act urgently to strengthen the supervision of the sector in order to rebuild the trust and increase its bad performance.
In a report published on Tuesday, while emphasizing how the committee invoices are expected to rise at the fastest rate in 20 years, customer trust in the sector is at the lowest level of all time.
The EA also gave its biggest budget so far to combat pollution with more than 189 million cash injection for this financial year.
The Environmental Department (Defra) said the money will help more executive officers, improved equipment and finance the latest technology.
The regulator will supervise the presence of more than 10,000 water companies this year and since July 2024, a record of 81 criminal investigations on water company pollution incidents.
“Although there are some improvements, it is clear that the performance of some companies is not good enough.
“This is finally set up correctly, to secure our water resources in the next five years, to support economic growth and to enter the sewage entering our rivers and seas with an investment of £ 104 billion.
“However, there is a need for a fundamental change in the regulation. We hope that the proposals of the Independent Water Commission will continue to take the investment that the sector needs to reduce the pollution incidents of the sector.”
