Household water bills in Wales will increase to become the highest in England and Wales over the next five years. Welsh Water has had a series of headline grabbing incident and just this month as many as 40,000 homes in North Wales remain without water following a burst pipe at Bryn Cowlyd Water Treatment Works in Dolgarrog, Conwy. Customers of Welsh Water have also had to endure boil water notices in the Rhondda Cynon Taff area and beaches across Wales have seen some of the highest levels of sewage discharge proportionately across England and Wales.
Commenting, Welsh Conservative Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change, Janet Finch-Saunders MS, Said:
“This latest water bill hike from Dŵr Cymru is unacceptable, especially given Dŵr Cymru's track record in Wales, with residents in Conwy earlier this month dealing with horrendous disruption with people unable to access any clean water.
“With Wales facing four times as many sewage discharges proportionally than England, and water bills in Wales set to become the highest in England and Wales, it feels like they’re flushing our money down the drain.
“Dŵr Cymru have been dragging their feet for years on necessary infrastructure upgrades and the public shouldn’t have to foot the bill for water companies’ long-standing failures and reluctance to upgrade their infrastructure until it’s far too late.”
