Two of the largest water companies in Britain, Times water The government said that the evangelical waters face more than 50 criminal investigations between them as part of a campaign to throw wastewater.
The facilities were subject to all standard investigations in the water companies between the general elections last July and March 2025, according to new data.
New salads to restore costs Environment Agency Investigations will be used, which means that “the polluted will pay.”
This may be very expensive for the Times, which is the highly debtor, which has been leading active investigations plans in 31 years and may have to finance the majority of them.
The largest water company in Britain, which came recently within five weeks of money running out, attempted, Convincing the water regulator to allow her to stop hundreds of million pounds from fines. It can risk the large additional costs by rid it of a special management, a form of nationalization.
The Times water mash to find a buyer ready to inject cash because it swings on the temporary nationalization lips. The company, which includes 16 million customers and 8,000 employees, operates under 20 billion pounds of debt.
US private stock company KKR, which Consider obtaining a share of 4 billion poundsIt is the last option for Themes Water while he was scrambling to find a buyer by the end of June. Anglian Water 22 has faced investigation since last July.
Sources in the Ministry of Environment said that they directed the Environment Agency to take strong measures and hope to see the executives of water in the court in the coming months. After these investigations, water chiefs can be imprisoned for two years and a fine of water companies hundreds of millions of pounds.
“The conservatives not only supervised record levels of dumping water, but also tried to cover up this,” said Steve Reed, Minister of Environment.
“The reform was not mentioned until the sewage in their statement; Nigel Faraj simply does not care about our beautiful rivers, lakes and seas.
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“This work government is working to clean the chaos that the conservatives left with a record number of criminal investigations into the water companies that deceive the law – which can see heads behind bars.”
It is a criminal crime for the water company to break its environmental bases. This can include the release of excessive river pollution or failure to implement water quality control. The Environment Agency rented 380 additional organizational employees to carry out inspections and other enforcement activity.
“Criminal investigations are welcome, but the organizers need urgent access to the courts, and if the upcoming spending review is the financing of the Environment Agency, how will it maintain the level of enforcement necessary to hold pollutants accountable – from water companies to the factory farms? Difficult discussion needs with real resources,” said James Wallace, CEO of River Action.
The Times waterAnglian water and water in the United Kingdom, the Industry Authority, for suspension.
