11/10/2007
Welsh Water Admits 'Unfit' Charges
Welsh Water has admitted four charges of supplying water unfit for human consumption.
The Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) brought the prosecution against the organisation following an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in Anglesey and Gwynedd almost two years ago.
From November 2005 until January 2006, 70,000 homes were instructed to boil their water before drinking or using it to prepare food to destroy cryptosporidium, a bug that causes diarrhoea.
However, the water, from the Cwellyn reservoir in Snowdonia, still made 231 people ill.
Welsh Water was fined £15,000 for each of the four counts and told to pay costs of just under £70,000 to the DWI.
Diane McCrea, Chair of the Consumer Council for Water Wales, said: "The safety of drinking water should be a water company's top priority and should never be compromised - there is no room for complacency where consumers' health is concerned. In this incident Dwr Cyrmu Welsh Water unfortunately failed its customers.
"We will be scrutinising the company's procedures and the remedial work undertaken to ensure that this never happens again, following the DWI's detailed assessment of this case. Customers must be able to have confidence in their water supply."
(KMcA)
The Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) brought the prosecution against the organisation following an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in Anglesey and Gwynedd almost two years ago.
From November 2005 until January 2006, 70,000 homes were instructed to boil their water before drinking or using it to prepare food to destroy cryptosporidium, a bug that causes diarrhoea.
However, the water, from the Cwellyn reservoir in Snowdonia, still made 231 people ill.
Welsh Water was fined £15,000 for each of the four counts and told to pay costs of just under £70,000 to the DWI.
Diane McCrea, Chair of the Consumer Council for Water Wales, said: "The safety of drinking water should be a water company's top priority and should never be compromised - there is no room for complacency where consumers' health is concerned. In this incident Dwr Cyrmu Welsh Water unfortunately failed its customers.
"We will be scrutinising the company's procedures and the remedial work undertaken to ensure that this never happens again, following the DWI's detailed assessment of this case. Customers must be able to have confidence in their water supply."
(KMcA)
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