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Ofwat is letting water firms charge twice to tackle sewage, a court will hear. The water regulator is unlawfully allowing water companies to charge customers twice to fund more than £100bn of investment to reduce sewage pollution, campaigners will allege.

Lawyers for River Action say the bill increases being allowed by Ofwat mean customers will be paying again for improvements to achieve environmental compliance that should have been funded from their previous bills.

Emma Dearnaley, the head of legal at River Action, said: “It is fundamental that the public should not be made to pay twice for water companies’ past failures to invest in improvements to stop sewage pollution.

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