Water bosses should face 'absolute accountability', they say
Water bosses should face ‘absolute accountability’ for dumping sewage in places like the River Mersey in south Manchester, including being sent to jail, a team of Greater Manchester MPs have suggested. Labour’s environment and rural affairs secretary, Jim McMahon, is backing the campaign to clean up the UK’s waterways.
READ MORE: GMP boss speaks out as officer who called Eid revellers 'smelly P*** c***s', his wife and PC who shared racist meme ALL sacked "It is a nonsense that the environment agency had a 40 per cent budget cut for enforcement, but is then expected to take on more expensive protracted investigations. We think that the water companies should pay the second sewage is discharged into the bodies of water.
“We were under the assumption that the river was getting cleaner but there is a situation where now there are discharges in my constituency alone of 200 hours of raw sewage last year. In Andrew's I think it was far worse a little bit further down. “One of our biggest and undervalued industries is tourism. Talking to people in the South East last summer, they were really worried about the impact on their coastal resorts of the sewage problems. It’s not just a problem in the Mersey, but it is right across the country.”
A United Utilities spokesperson, said: “We are committed to delivering a step change in performance. We set out to reduce the number of spills from storm overflows by at least one-third by 2025, compared to the 2020 baseline, and our performance in 2022 means we have already met that target. We know there is much more to be done.
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