{"id":228305,"date":"2025-10-27T14:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/228305\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:35:07","slug":"environmental-group-rejects-south-west-waters-greenwashing-funding-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/228305\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental group rejects South West Water&#8217;s &#8220;greenwashing&#8221; funding offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SWW said it would reallocate the money from its Better Futures Fund, which is offering \u00a32.5m to community groups over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Events co-ordinator Kristy Poulton said the company had made great strides towards reducing pollution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve already removed three-quarters of the top 20 spilling sites from 2023, reduced spills at bathing beaches by 20% over the past five years and are investing \u00a3760m over the next five years to reduce the use of storm overflows,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, on Thursday, the Environment Agency gave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c7973d5180lo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South West Water a red rating for its environmental performance for the 14th year in a row<\/a>, meaning it was &#8220;significantly below target&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said SWW was responsible for 189 pollution incidents in 2024, five fewer than the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four were classed as &#8220;serious&#8221; &#8211; double the number recorded in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SWW said it would reallocate the money from its Better Futures Fund, which is offering \u00a32.5m to community&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-228305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}