Water companies miss targets to cut pollution incidents, report warns
Water running from a household tap (Rui Vieira/PA)
Water companies need to improve their environmental performance as there are still too many serious pollution incidents, the Environment Agency has warned.
The latest annual report from the government agency has found that none of the nine English water and sewerage companies had achieved all the environmental expectations set out for them for 2015 to 2020.
The latest rankings reveal five companies achieving the highest four-star rating in the past year, and Wessex Water, United Utilities and Severn Trent Water in particular have sustained a high performance in the past five years.
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