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MP’s voted down an amendment to stop private water companies from dumping raw sewage into the UK’s rivers and coastlines.
The proposed amendment to the Environment Bill would have required water companies to take ‘all reasonable’ steps to stop untreated sewage discharges into waterways.
Other proposals included:
265 Tory MPs voted down the amendment.
This comes as figures collected by charity the Rivers Trust show that all of England’s rivers are currently failing to pass cleanliness tests, with 53% of them in a poor state at least partly because of water companies releasing raw and partially-treated sewage.