Water bosses could be jailed if they cover up sewage dumping under new law

Campaigners and experts said the announcement did not go far enough, and that the whole system needed to change as it had ‘failed’.

2024-09-04  808  中等

Civil servants at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told journalists on Wednesday that they planned to tighten compliance rules to force companies to hand over sewage data quickly, and that the maximum sentence for covering up this information or failing to release it would be two years.

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