The water company United Utilities has underspent by more than £50m on vital work in Windermere and elsewhere in north-west England, to connect private septic tanks to the mains network and reduce sewage pollution, it can be revealed.
The financial regulator, Ofwat, revealed in response to a freedom of information request that the privatised water company had been allocated £129m to connect non-mains systems – mostly septic tanks – to the mains sewer network since 2000.
