Salary increase for Severn Trent boss despite sewage spill fine

Earlier in the year, Severn Trent water which supplies the West Midlands, were fined two million pounds for sewage spills.

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00:00I'm Paul Coulson, I work for the Institute of Fisheries Management, and at the moment

00:06I'm the Acting Chief Executive.

00:08You've got lots of money being earned, big bonuses, big wages being paid to people, and

00:14you know, your general public don't see an improvement in their services.

00:19So you're paying them however much they're paying out in dividends, it's big numbers

00:23isn't it?

00:24Yet, we can go down to the river today and point out wet wipes in trees, and we can see

00:29rubbish everywhere, can't we?

00:31You know, you see stories of dead fish and impacts on the marine environment, you know,

00:38we can put a drone up now, can't we?

00:40And we can see clear as day where the pipes are and it's pumping sewage in, and you can

00:45pan round and there's people swimming in the sea.

00:47Earlier this year, Seven Trent Water, which supplies the West Midlands, were fined £2

00:51million for sewage spills, but a spokesperson defended a £3.2 million salary paid to the

00:57firm's boss.