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Water companies raise bonuses to £9.1m despite record sewage discharges

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Severn Trent had the biggest bonus payout, at 3.361 m, compared with 3.319 m last year .

Sewage was discharged for more than 3.6 m hours into rivers and seas, a 105% increase on previous year .

Thames Water almost doubled its payouts to executives, from 746,000 in 2021-22 to 1.3 m in 2023-24 .

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