The Guardian: Water firms in England urged to upgrade sewage works for new homes
"Campaigners are intervening to prevent new houses being occupied in several areas of England until sewage treatment works are upgraded to cope.
In Oxfordshire, the Cotswolds and in Cumbria, the failure of water companies to invest in sewage infrastructure means new homes would just add more sewage into treatment works that are at or beyond capacity, and increase pollution into rivers, they say.
The move comes as the regulator Ofwat continues its investigation into water companies for what it says are shocking failures in the way they run their treatment works and for potentially illegal dumping of raw sewage."
