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Small businesses face higher water bills as Ofwat looks at overhauling price cap rules

Regulator opens six-week consultation on ending regional limits on rates in England

Evening Standard

Expert warns £65 rise on water bills could be needed to stop more than 1,000 sewage dumps a day

"Definitely not the type of stuff you want to go swimming in"

Nottingham Post

Liz Truss branded sewage in rivers 'disgraceful' in 2014 speech despite budget cuts

The Tory leadership frontrunner has come under firefor overseeing cuts to the Environment Agency budget, after which raw sewage discharges have risen

Daily Mirror

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The Guardian view on England’s sewage crisis: a Tory stink

Editorial: As environment secretary, Liz Truss made cuts that undermined regulation. Now coastal communities are suffering

The Guardian - UK

Roll up, roll up and meet the watery overlords pumping sewage on to Britain’s shores this summer

Why focus just on the politicians where there are plenty of CEOs out there with excrement on their hands, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

Water companies in England ‘will take 2,000 years to replace pipe network’

Leaked data shows water companies are replacing 0.05% of England’s crumbling pipe network a year

The Guardian - UK

Water regulator giving companies a ‘licence to leak’, say MPs and charities

Ofwat is criticised for failing to curb huge bonuses for CEOs of companies that pollute

The Guardian - UK

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Sewage monitors faulty at seaside spots in England and Wales, data shows

Environment Agency figures indicate people could be swimming in human waste this summer without warning

The Guardian - UK

Ministers unlikely to take serious action over sewage pollution, activist says

Neil Cutts, from Surfers Against Sewage, warned the Government is unlikely to tackle the problem in the foreseeable future.

The Independent UK

Water company CEOs try to woo me, but I’ve got only one message for them: do your jobs

Parts of England could run out of water in the near future, says campaigner and former Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey

The Guardian - UK

Water firms in England and Wales lost 1tn litres via leaky pipes in 2021

Regulator Ofwat says companies lost an average of 2,923.8m litres of water a day in 2021-22

The Guardian - UK

Water company CEO offered £1,000 to drink ‘sewage’ it says is mostly rainwater

Feargal Sharkey challenges water boss to drink water from a sewer overflow spill after CEO claims it is “95% rainwater”

Evening Standard

Ofwat may want to supply better evidence of being tough on water firms

The regulator approved a rescuer of Southern that hardly had a clean record in the sector

The Guardian - UK

I worked on the privatisation of England’s water in 1989. It was an organised rip-off

Taxpayers lost out, and consumers have paid through the nose ever since. This failed regime is long past its sell-by date, says economist Jonathan Portes

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

Brace for flash floods, meteorologists warn as ‘intense’ thunderstorms set to hit capital

The ‘wrong kind of rain’ is unlikely to help with droughts

The Guardian - UK

Ofwat chief defends water companies over lack of new reservoirs

David Black also says most firms are meeting leakage targets despite water shortages in England

The Independent UK

Labour would end ‘scandalous’ bonuses for water company bosses, says Ed Miliband

But regulator Ofwat says situation in the sector is ‘complex’

The Independent UK

Days of thunder this week as heavy rain and floods set to continue

The Met Office said localised areas in England and Wales will be hit by torrential rain, thunder and flooding again on Tuesday.

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The Independent UK

Ofwat chief defends water regulation regime

Chief executive David Black said some companies have fallen short but defended the regulation regime.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on water companies: nationalise a flawed private system

Editorial: Time to fix Britain’s broken private utility model, whereby natural monopolies are able to dupe weak regulators

Wales Online

Make it harder for people to Tarmac over their front gardens and put down artificial lawns - says Welsh Water boss

Steve Wilson said these and other measures were needed to improve water quality in rivers and the sea

The Guardian - UK

Ofwat extends sewage dumping inquiry to include South West Water

Regulator expands investigation after suggestions water firm was not complying with legal obligations

Birmingham Post

South West Water latest supplier to be probed by Ofwat over sewage treatment

South West Water adds to a growing list of water suppliers to come under investigation.

The Guardian - UK

Activists take water regulator to court over sewage in English and Welsh rivers

Environmental group Wild Justice seeks judicial review of Ofwat’s alleged failure to monitor water firms and act on discharges

Birmingham Post

Severn Trent announces £30m fund to help extra 100,000 people struggling to pay water bills

It means 315,000 lowest income families could get 90% cut to their water charges

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