it was time to place personal liability on the directors of water companies.
Charities and campaign groups also called for more ambitious targets from the Government, while also demanding that it restore the Environment Agency’s budget to better enforce existing laws and targets. Only 14 per cent of England’s rivers are classified as being in ‘good’ ecological status by the Environment Agency and it has warned that, without new interventions, that figure will drop to just six per cent by 2027.
This lack of data not only makes it impossible to establish the full picture of sewage discharges, but also makes it dangerous for recreational users of rivers.
newscientist Pumping raw sewage into the ocean isn’t much good either, maybe water privatisation is not a good idea