A leading environmental expert has warned that a hidden network of up to 10,000 unmonitored sewage pipes across the country could be driving the UK’s river pollution crisis.
Tim Harris, who spent nearly two decades as a scientific advisor at one of the UK’s biggest water companies, United Utilities, and now heads the consultancy TH Environmental, told LBC that water companies have significantly underestimated the number of pipes in operation across the UK.According to his estimates, the true number could be 50% higher than the 22,000 overflows currently acknowledged by the government.
Water companies have faced significant criticism for their role in the pollution crisis, with campaigners and MPs pointing to decades of underinvestment since they were passed into private hands.The industry body, Water UK, has committed to investing £10 billion in improving the UK’s sewage overflow system with the aim of reducing the amount of pollution entering rivers.
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