In response to the publication of figures for sewage discharges, Megan Corton Scott, political campaigner for Greenpeace UK, said –
“If it wasn’t obvious already, the water companies have no shame. The monopoly control the government has handed to them means they have no commercial incentive to do anything other than collect the money their customers have no choice over giving them. We’ve had three Environment secretaries in the last year, and not one of them has made any progress on this. The government must end their snail-like approach and urgently set ambitious, binding near-term targets to improve water quality, and give the regulators the legal powers and funding necessary to enforce them. Either the government does a u-turn, or watches its votes slide round the u-bend at the next General Election.”
