Water company employees encouraged to blow whistle on sewage pollution

The Environment Agency is encouraging water company employees to flag serious environmental wrongdoing and sewage pollution at their organisations. The regulator has launched a new portal which it said will make it “easier for internal water company whistleblowers to safely report serious environmental wrongdoing by their water companies”. The whistleblowing portal is also open for submissions from people working in the waste, nuclear, fishing, agricultural, and chemical sectors, however it has been billed as the latest measure in the government’s “water company crackdown”.

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