Water industry pledges £10bn spend to stem sewage spills

Water companies have pledged to invest £10bn to reduce waste outflows after apologising for dumping billions of litres of sewage in rivers and seas
To put things right, the industry is planning to make the largest ever investment in storm overflows as part of a major programme to reduce spills.
If approved by regulators, water companies aim to deliver a massive transformation programme across 350,000 miles of sewer.A detailed National Overflows Plan will be published later this summer, exp