{"id":273671,"date":"2025-07-19T03:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273671\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T03:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:13:11","slug":"welsh-water-sewage-spills-at-highest-in-10-years-nrw-data-shows-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273671\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Water sewage spills at highest in 10 years, NRW data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nadia De Longhi, head of regulation and permitting at NRW, said despite &#8220;repeated warnings and interventions&#8221; Welsh Water had been &#8220;unable to reverse this concerning trend&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This has left us with no choice but to pursue a number of prosecutions against the company which have recently concluded,&#8221; Ms De Longhi added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is not the outcome we want, nor the best outcome for the environment \u2013 our priority will always be to bring companies into compliance and prevent environmental damage from happening in the first place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Welsh Water must address the root cause of these pollution incidents and take preventative measures before more harm is done to the water environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NRW added it would be increasing its capacity for monitoring and auditing discharges, as well as clamping down on unpermitted storm overflows and introducing tighter criteria for annual performance reporting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nadia De Longhi, head of regulation and permitting at NRW, said despite &#8220;repeated warnings and interventions&#8221; Welsh Water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-273671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114877720390398155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}