Environment Agency figures earlier this year showed there were a total of 301,091 sewage spills in 2022, an average of 824 a day.
Up Sewage Creek campaigners have been raising the issue of sewage being discharged into the River Severn
Responding to the announcement Claire Kirby, of Shrewsbury campaign group Up Sewage Creek, said that the words would be meaningless unless action improved the state of the county's waterways. Under plans to be unveiled in full this summer, companies will be able to improve their sewer networks and treat overflow spills with less impact on rivers and seas, Water UK said.
"The newspapers were covered with picture of beaches covered in excrement last summer and the fuss hasn’t died down. "The scale of investment now proposed is very welcome, albeit long overdue: it is an encouraging step in the right direction. I hope that Ofwat will approve this material increase in the proportion of the sector’s capital investment devoted to improving water quality, as the Committee has been advocating.
The Government's Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan, published in August 2022, aims to eliminate sewage dumping by 2050 while cutting discharges close to"high priority" areas by 75 per cent by 2035 and 100 per cent by 2045.
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