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downing street says the companies should be putting consumers before profits. our environment correspondent jonah fisher reports. ash is a retired policeman and has for the last ten years dedicated himself to trying to hold water companies accountable. he s taken us to a small treatment plant in oxfordshire, where raw sewage regularly overflows into a ditch outside. you ve got basically sewage sludge. when you say sewage sludge, do you mean poo? yeah, that s basically what i mean, that s a polite way of putting it. it s a common occurrence across england. last year, there were, on average, more than 800 sewage spills every day. together with ash, professor peter hammond has been using the water company s own data to try and establish exactly when the sewage spills are taking place and if they are legal or an abuse of the permit system. i have here 500 pages of evidence

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