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| New law sees unfair bonuses banned for six water companies |
| Polluting water bosses will no longer be paid undeserved bonuses. Any who cover up illegal sewage spills could be sent to prison for two years.
These new measures will force water companies to end their disgraceful behaviour and clean up our rivers, lakes and seas for good. |
| Ofwat to be abolished in biggest overhaul of water since privatisation |
| The new single, powerful regulator will replace the four current separate regulators responsible for the water industry. This complex, tangled system of confusion has become a merry-go-round of regulators blaming each other for breaking this country’s water system.
The government will create a water ombudsman with legal powers to protect customers in disputes with their water company. Customers will be able to use a single, free point of contact. |
| Customers to receive up to £2000 for water service failures |
| Water companies will increase compensation payments to customers up to tenfold, ensuring that the public are more fairly reimbursed for supply issues and low standards of service.
Customers will automatically receive more money for issues such as continued low water pressure and cancelled appointments. |
Rapid population growth, crumbling infrastructure that has been left to decline, and a warming climate mean the UK could run out of clean drinking water by the middle of the next decade without a major infrastructure overhaul.
New reservoirs will supply three quarters of a million homes and unlock the building of tens of thousands more as part of the Plan for Change, including near Havant and Abingdon.
| Sewage pollution from water companies will be cut in half by the end of the decade |
| The Government, in partnership with investors, has secured funding to rebuild the entire water network to clean up our rivers.
In one of the largest infrastructure projects in this country’s history, a record £104 billion is being invested to upgrade crumbling pipes and build new sewage treatment works cutting sewage pollution into rivers. |