United Utilities react to proposed government bill to crackdown on water pollution
United Utilities which supplies the North West of England said they share "the government's ambition for a step change in environmental performance"
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00:00I'm Paul Coulson, I work for the Institute of Fisheries Management, and at the moment I'm the Acting Chief Executive.
00:07Lots of money being earned, big bonuses, big wages being paid to people, and your general public don't see an improvement in their services.
00:17So you're paying them however much they're paying out in dividends, it's big numbers, isn't it?
00:22Yet we can go down to the river today and point out wet wipes in trees, and we can see rubbish everywhere, can't we?
00:29You know, you see stories of dead fish and impacts on the marine environment.
00:36We can put a drone up now, can't we? And we can see clear as day where the pipes are and it's pumping sewage in,
00:42and you can pan round and there's people swimming in the sea.
00:45United Utilities, which supplies the north-west of England, said they share the government's ambition for a step change in environmental performance.
00:53That's despite coming under fire for a massive spill in Lake Windermere in February, and then posting a huge rise in profits.