Environment Secretary Therese Coffey has admitted she is 'pretty fed up' with the UK's water firms after they were forced to apologise over sewage spills
Environment Secretary Therese Coffey has admitted she is"pretty fed up" with the UK's water firms after they were forced to apologise over sewage spills.
Industry body Water UK said campaigners were"right to be upset about the current quality of our rivers and beaches" as it announced the package of investment on Thursday - which it claimed would be"the biggest modernisation of sewers since the Victorian era".
That represented a fall of almost a fifth on 2021's 372,533 spills, although the EA said that had been"largely down to dry weather, not water company action".Marine conservation charity Surfers Against Sewage organised a mass
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