Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal.
There is no end in sight to the pollution caused by a ‘broken’ system. Experts say it could even be getting worse.
English water companies have accumulated nearly 1,200 criminal convictions for pollution and environmental offences, but not one chief executive has been charged with any offence. The biggest criminal case against any water company, the prosecution of Southern Water for dumping billions of litres of raw sewage into protected seas, for which it was fined a record £90m, did not put any director in court despite the prosecutor saying there was “long-term corporate knowledge”.
