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Britain has become notorious as a place where a casual swim could lead to an extended visit to the toilet.
Bad water is decades in the making, tied to the privatization of waterworks under Thatcher ’s Conservative government.
The number of untreated sewage discharges increased by more than 50 percent last year from the previous one to a record 464,000 spills.
A bipartisan committee in the House of Lords last year found the two regulators needed to go further in fining and prosecuting polluters.
The Environment Agency ’s number of prosecutions has declined significantly over the years , from 787 cases in 2007-2008 to 17 in 2020-2021 .
Neither Conservatives nor left-of-center Labour has offered much of a detailed plan to increase regulator funding.
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