Activists warn of ‘extreme anger’ if ministers fail to reform water regulator

A man and child make their way to the sea in Scarborough, north Yorkshire, where the sea is unsafe due to sewage. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Guardian

Anti-sewage campaigners have warned of “extreme anger” if the Labour government does not radically reform the water regulator.

Sources at the Environment Agency (EA) and in the Labour party have told the Guardian that while Labour had spent time considering reforms of the EA and Ofwat in order to fix the sewage crisis, some stricter options that had been proposed were now off the table.