Our letter to water companies strongly encouraged them to proactively disclose information relating to sewage discharges each month, and we are reiterating this call today. Publishing sewage discharge data proactively means that the public have access to the information they need, when they need it. If this information is publicly available, it may also be more efficient by reducing individual EIR requests in the future for the same information.
So far, only two water companies, Yorkshire Water and South West Water, have committed to publishing this information each month. This is disappointing and brings further into question the commitment by the sector to being open with the public. We've heard from several water companies who argued that publishing this data was too challenging, despite these firms already collecting data on start and stop times due to a legal requirement to report to environmental regulators.
Water companies in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland haven't been very responsive to the ICO's call for proactive publication of monthly sewage discharge data ico.org.uk/about-the-ic... post from the Information Commissioner's Office
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