Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 25
Ninth Report: Water supply and demand management
Published 10 Jul 2020
Addressed to HM Treasury
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
On top of the pressures exerted by over-abstraction, chalk streams are also facing damage from agricultural run-off and sewage discharge.52 The Environment Agency told us that it was working with farmers to give them advice about how to farm in ways that would prevent run-off and that one of its duties is to regulate water companies to make sure they conform to the terms of their permits specifying what can be discharged into rivers. If those conditions are not met, the Environment Agency said it takes action. It has prosecuted Thames Water on a number of occasions for breaching the conditions of its permits and allowing sewage to enter rivers from its treatment plants.53
From: Public Accounts Committee, Ninth Report: Water supply and demand management (HC 378), 10 July 2020
Government response
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