00:00the water system is broken we have got record amounts of sewage going into rivers lakes and
00:05seas and we've also got soaring water bills and so the system clearly isn't working now
00:10today's announcement is part three of a process that we've already started part one was looking
00:15to reset accountability introducing the water special measures act banning unfair bonuses
00:20introducing criminal liability part two was rebuilding so we got 104 billion pounds to
00:26literally rebuilt some of our crumbling assets including our sewage treatment works which
00:30are a source of the pollution and today part three is about the revolution it's about root and branch
00:36reform of the entire water sector tinkering around the edges isn't going to be enough we're looking
00:41for fundamental change well what we're going to be doing is looking over the summer at all of those
00:4588 recommendations in detail to see which ones we will be accepting and which ones we might not be i
00:50can't give you a number at the moment but then we'll be bringing forward a white paper in october which
00:55will respond to all of it and in that we'll have all of the details well what we've said is in the
01:00next five years we're going to half the amounts of pollution half the amounts of sewage and half the
01:04excuse me the amounts of phosphorus going into our rivers lakes and seas
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