Thames Water fined £3,300,000 for polluting rivers near London airport
Thames Water has been fined £3.3 million at Lewes Crown Court after pleading guilty to charges relating to polluting rivers near Gatwick.
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Thames Water has been fined £3.3 million at Lewes Crown Court after pleading guilty to charges relating to polluting rivers near Gatwick.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest water supplier Thames Water has been fined 3.3 million pounds ($4.2 million) by a UK court after it pleaded guilty to polluting rivers in 2017, the heavily indebted group said on Tuesday.
Thames Water has been handed a £3.3m fine for a “reckless” incident in which millions of litres of undiluted sewage were pumped into rivers near Gatwick Airport in 2017.
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Thames Water has been fined millions of pounds for a pollution incident near Gatwick Airport in 2017.