Thames Water bosses on Tuesday blamed heavy rainfall linked to climate change for a doubling of raw sewage discharges directly into rivers and a spike in the number of times it polluted water courses over the past year.
Embattled chief executive Chris Weston admitted that “our performance in pollutions and sewage discharges is not where it should be or where we want it to be”, as he unveiled annual financial results from the country’s biggest water company. Thames admitted that sewage discharges shot up from 8,015 to 16,990 in the year to the end of March while pollution incidents rose six per cent from 331 to 350.
