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Evening Standard
Holly Williams

Welsh Water to pay out £44.7m over sewage spills after ‘serious’ failures

Sewage pipe (Alamy/PA) -

Welsh Water will pay out £44.7 million after failures in its sewage network and oversight led to a series of spills and must now focus on “putting things right”, regulator Ofwat has announced.

The water watchdog said it had accepted the supplier’s redress package, which was first proposed in March, following consultation.

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