Welsh Water released sewage into waterways for more than 900,000 hours last year

Welsh Water said spillages were linked to an increase in the amount of wetter weather.

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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, yet we can go down to the river today and point out wet wipes in trees, and

00:29we can see rubbish everywhere can't we, you know, you see stories of dead fish and impacts

00:35on the marine environment, you know, we can put a drone up now can't we, and we can see

00:41clear as day where the pipes are and it's pumping sewage in, and you can pan around

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

00:47Welsh Water released sewage into waterways around Wales for more than 916,000 hours last

00:53year.

00:54The firm said spillages were linked to wetter weather.