Water companies ordered to shave £150m off customer bills after missing environmental targets

Cecilia Keating
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England and Wales water regulator Ofwat hands out financial penalties to 11 firms for missing supply, biodiversity, pollution and sewer flooding goals

A raft of water companies have been ordered to return £150m to customers because they failed to meet their targets around pollution, biodiversity, sewer flooding and continuity of supply. Ofwat, the...

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