I read with interest your article regarding Mr Alan Bassett and his justified anger at a significantly increased water bill.
Despite the excuses made by the water company, I would strongly suggest that these significant increases are being levied in order to pay for the cost of improved treatment of raw sewage that these companies would otherwise prefer to continue discharging straight into our rivers and coastal waterways, as it now transpires they have been doing for years.
This has resulted in catastrophic environmental damage.
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The fact that consumers are now expected to foot the bill for such infrastructure costs is nothing short of a national scandal, as this government well knows.
Both DEFRA and the Environment Agency will soon be appearing in court over their abject failure to protect the river Wye from agricultural pollution, doubtless due in no small part to their funding having been significantly reduced by one Liz Truss, whose disastrous 40-day tenure as Prime Minister continues to negatively affect many of us.
Keith Chadwick
Newtown
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