Welsh Water handed out performance-related bonuses of nearly seven-figures to its top three executives over the last two years - despite the fact the company pumped raw sewage into Welsh waterways 100,000 times during the last 12 months alone.
Based on figures from their audited accounts, Peter Perry (chief executive), Mike Davis (chief financial officer) and Chris Jones (executive director) took home performance-related bonuses worth £931,000. That means the three men shared pay packets totalling £2.6m over two years from Welsh Water, a not-for-profit organisation owned by Glas Cymru which is responsible for water and wastewater services to around 1.3m people in Wales.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats, who collated the figures, called the bonuses "eye watering" in light of the way raw sewage continues to be discharged into our rivers and seas. The party is calling for the bonuses to be banned until sewage discharges end.
