Yorkshire Water dumped sewage for more than half a million hours last year

The organisation said it was partly due to England experiencing its sixth-wettest year on record.

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

00:05the Acting Chief Executive. You've got lots of money being earned, big bonuses, big wages

00:11being 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

00:22isn't it, yet we can go down to the river today and point out wet wipes in trees, and

00:27we can see rubbish everywhere can't we, you know you see stories of dead fish and impacts

00:34on the marine environment, we can put a drone up now can't we, and we can see clear as day

00:41where the pipes are and it's pumping sewage in, and you can pan round and there's people

00:44swimming in the sea.

00:46Yorkshire Water dumped sewage into rivers and seas for more than half a million hours

00:50last year, more than doubling on the previous year's figure. The organisation said it was

00:55partly due to England experiencing its sixth wettest year on record.