Serious water pollution incidents have risen 60% in a year

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The number of serious water pollution incidents increased by 60 per cent last year, a watchdog has found. Water Minister Emma Hardy said it's "a complete disgrace" and that it's "clear regulation isn't working".   Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00It's a complete disgrace what's happened and people have every right to be furious about it.

00:05I'm furious about what's happened and we've seen it particularly from three of the water companies

00:09and it is clear that regulation isn't working effectively but we've put in those building blocks

00:15to try and change things. When we came into government we've introduced the Water Special

00:19Measures Act which has banned unfair bonuses so some of those polluting water buses have not been

00:23getting bonuses this time because of the levels of pollution that we've seen but we've also

00:29managed to get £104 billion of investment into the sector because fundamentally if we want to stop

00:35pollution we need to invest in improving the infrastructure which has been left to just fall apart

00:40over the last 14 years.

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