Environment Secretary Steve Barclay has instructed residents of West Water and Brixham to continue boiling water for the sixth day following a parasite outbreak.
Water firms said it was 'not cost beneficial' to upgrade 280 spilling overflowsBritain's greatest beauty spots and most stunning waterways are being continually polluted by water companies who say it is 'not cost beneficial' to upgrade the network to prevent leakage in half of all cases, MailOnline can reveal.
Data analysis by MailOnline shows water firms decided there was 'no cost beneficial solution' to prevent 280 discharge sites in England that, due to lack of capacity, pumped untreated sewage into rivers and seas for hundreds of hours last year. Read More Windermere to wasteland: 'Millions of litres of raw sewage were illegally pumped' into Lake District beauty spot after a fault - which took '13 hours' to report to officials Another 50 storm overflows had a 'potential spill reduction scheme' identified, but this does not necessarily mean that this will happen, as at least 90 which had possible solutions identified in 2022 were deemed not cost beneficial the next year.
'There can be no question that British Public are clearly bewildered as to how our rivers could ever have been allowed to become systemically so full of human excrement. A spokesperson for Water UK, which represents British water companies, said that 'all water companies follow Environment Agency guidance' when performing cost-benefit analyses on how to address excessive storm overflows.
'With half term a couple of weeks away and hundreds of thousands of families soon to be heading to our beaches, rivers and lakes – we are desperately worried about the human health risks posed by highly dangerous pathogens in the water,' Mr Watson added. Just 28 storm overflows in England have been placed onto the government 'spill reduction scheme' and 272 have had 'other improvements' to address the overflows.
Total hours water companies in England leaked sewage into rivers, lakes and the sea in 2023 shown by the areas they cover Northumbrian Water said it was not cost beneficial to improve 94 storm overflows which discharged for nearly 37,000 hours last year. The firm has come under fire this week after having to urge people to boil their tap water after hundreds were struck down with diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach pains in a seaside town in Devon due to an outbreak of Cryptosporidium, a water-borne parasite which is found in human and animal faeces.
Read More Britain's filthiest rivers are revealed as sewage is dumped in waterways across the country: But is YOUR area on the list? 'As set out by the Storm Overflow Discharge Reduction Plan, water companies will be investing to ensure all overflows meet the new requirements by 2050.
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