Minister: Water Bosses Responsible for Repeated Sewage Dumping to Face Criminal Charges, Bonus Ban

Water bosses who are responsible for repeated illegal sewage dumping will lose their bonuses and face criminal charges, the environment secretary has said. Steve Reed said he’s introducing new laws to Parliament that will give the regulators “more teeth.” “Water bosses responsible for repeated illegal sewage dumping will face criminal charges, and I’ll ban the payment of their multi-million-pound bonuses until they clean up their toxic filth,” the minister wrote in an article published in the Mail Online. Mr. Reed said it was “more profitable to let the pollution flow rather than fix the broken pipes, and regulation was too weak to stop them,” and vowed it “will never happen again” under Labour....