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Former Southern Water employees to face trial over alleged cover-up in wastewater testing

· The Guardian

Former Southern Water employees to face trial over alleged cover-up in wastewater testing

Britain’s ⁠Environment Agency (EA) is ⁠bringing ​a fraud case against ⁠four former Southern Water employees, including ⁠the former chief executive ​Matthew ‌Wright, over ‌allegations they manipulated wastewater ‌testing results.

The regulator said the four had allegedly conspired ‌to defraud the Environment Agency and ​water regulator Ofwat between 2012 and 2017 by ⁠creating artificial “no-flow” ​events ​at wastewater treatment ​works to ​influence ‌compliance checks.

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