Three UK water bosses give up bonuses after anger over sewage

The Thames Water chief executive, Sarah Bentley, received a £496,000 payout last year. She said it ‘just did not feel like the right thing to take performance-related pay this year’. Photograph: Thames Water

Three water company bosses have given up their bonuses in an acknowledgment of the public anger over companies’ dumping of sewage in Britain’s rivers.

The chief executives of Yorkshire Water and Thames Water as well as the owner of South West Water have declined to accept bonuses this year.