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Quarter of adults consider refusing to pay water bills amid sewage outrage
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AS FRUSTRATION grows over failure to tackle pollution, new research revealed yesterday that over a quarter of adults in England have considered withholding water bill payments.

A new report from Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) has accused the water industry of falling short of the Environment Agency’s target to reduce pollution incidents by 40 per cent.

Instead, they recorded a 30 per cent increase to 2,487 incidents, the highest in a decade.

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