Top-rated water firms dumped 1,374 ‘illegal’ spills into UK rivers

Two of the UK’s largest water firms breached their permits by dumping over a thousand raw sewage spills into rivers, even though they had received the highest possible environmental rating from one of the sector’s regulators, fresh analysis has revealed. Severn Trent and United Utilities oversaw 1,374 raw sewage spills from treatment works across more [...]