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.