During a campaign visit to a water activity park in Warwickshire, Sir Ed Davey outlined the Liberal Democrats' proposal to establish a Clean Water Authority to address sewage dumping issues. Davey says that the new regulatory body would prohibit bonuses for executives of water companies, revoke licenses from companies that fail to meet standards, enforce the provision of real-time sewage spill data, and implement legally binding discharge targets. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00What we're trying to get over is the fact that there is a sewage scandal with the water
00:27company. It's being allowed by the Conservatives to keep pumping their filthy sewage into our
00:30rivers, our lakes, to our beaches and seas, and it's got to end. So we keep coming back
00:35to that. I don't want to apologise for that. We've explained how serious the problem is
00:39to our environment, to public health, and it affects leisure activities. So here we
00:43are having some fun, yeah, but making the point that millions of people like going into
00:48water, like swimming, like paddle boarding, like doing other water sports. And if we don't
00:52clean the water up properly, they won't be able to enjoy that, as well as it being damaging
00:56to the environment and public health. So we're saying today, let's have a tougher new regulator.
01:00We're calling it the Clean Water Authority. And it backs up all the Liberal Democrat policies
01:06to end this sewage scandal.