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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Emily Beament

Water companies to invest £22bn in wide-ranging programme to protect environment

The investment will help clean up rivers and reduce pollution (Alamy/PA) -

Water companies are to undertake thousands of actions totalling £22 billion in investment to improve the environment, under a programme agreed with regulators.

The 24,000 actions utilities must undertake in the next five years to meet their environmental requirements include upgrading storm overflows to reduce sewage pollution, protecting thousands of miles of rivers and improving newly designated bathing sites.

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