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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

UK water industry’s ‘urgent’ plan to tackle sewage pollution delayed by four months

Sewage and pollution floats on floodwater on Cookham Moor in Berkshire.
Sewage and pollution floats on floodwater on Cookham Moor in Berkshire. Photograph: Maureen McLean/REX/Shutterstock

Plans from the UK water industry to “urgently” tackle the sewage pollution crisis have been delayed by four months, with no publication date in sight, the Guardian can reveal.

Government ministers last year demanded water executives send them a “plan for urgent change” to tackle outflows which spill untreated human waste into rivers and seas.

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