独家：去年，水务公司通过将工业和生活废水排入无法去除许多化学污染物的污水处理厂，获利超过3.4亿英镑。英国水务公司去年通过将数十亿升工业和生活废水排入污水处理厂，获得了超过3.4亿英镑的收入。专家表示，这些污水处理厂并非为去除大多数化学品而设计，导致污染物进入河流、海洋和农田。
Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants Water companies in the UK made more than £340m in revenue last year by pouring billions of litres of industrial and commercial wastewater into sewage treatment works that experts say are not designed to remove most chemicals, leaving pollutants to pass into rivers, seas and farmland.
法律要求水务公司接收工业废水，并颁发称为“工业废水排放许可”的许可证，允许企业将废水送往污水处理厂，尽管水务公司可以拒绝申请。
Water companies are required by law to take industrial wastewater and issue permits called “trade-effluent consents” that allow businesses to send it to sewage works, though water companies can refuse applications.
