The UK government and regulators broke the law by allowing water companies to dump raw sewage into tributaries even when it wasn’t raining, a public watchdog said Tuesday while threatening court action. Discharges of untreated waste into public waters in recent years triggered outrage among Britons and prompted citizen scientists to conduct their own testing regimes because they don’t trust …
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Water suppliers such as Thames Water are at risk of collapsing into administration if they are fined for bad behaviour, MPs have warned, potentially landing taxpayers with a multi-billion pound bailout bill. The Telegraph revealed on Friday that Whitehall officials are drawing up contingency plans to prepare for the possible collapse of Britain’s largest supplier, which serves 15 million customers …
