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Pollution patrol
Overall the water industry has also improved environmental standards, including reducing the number of major pollution incidents, but this national picture masks regional differences. Companies such as Welsh Water and Severn Trent have both been prosecuted over 40 times since 1989/90. The prosecutions have been for incidents such as polluting lakes, rivers and streams with sewage or chemicals. The pollution can kill fish stocks and damage the environment. There are also fears that the currently legal abstraction of water from some environmentally important areas could be seriously damaging the countryside.
Successful Water Company Prosecutions, 1989-97
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Total Prosecutions
1989-1997 |
Anglian |
31 |
Dwr Cymru |
41 |
N.West |
30 |
Northumbrian |
13 |
Severn Trent |
44 |
S.West |
10 |
Southern |
20 |
Thames |
31 |
Wessex |
10 |
Yorkshire |
30 |
Source: Environment Agency
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