Damian Green says it was 'regarded as acceptable' when he was a child.
Welsh Water recently said it would spend £840m by 2025, followed by a further £1.4bn between 2024-2030 on work to tackle the problem and protect the environment.
Chief executive Peter Perry said last week that he and company chief finance director Mike Davies would not be taking their bonus this year after the firms sewage figures were released.Emma Clancy, chief executive of the Consumer Council for Water , said this could mark a "turning point in water companies taking ownership of tackling the challenges facing the sector".
But Josh Harries of Surfers Against Sewage, an environmental charity that campaigns to protect the ocean, said it was hard to believe water companies. "Why should we trust them? They've overseen decades of mismanagement of our sewerage network with our rivers and seas paying the price.The majority of sewers in Wales are "combined sewers" and carry both sewage and surface water from roofs and drains.
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