{"id":459232,"date":"2026-03-05T17:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459232\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:17:11","slug":"south-west-water-will-not-pass-on-any-parasite-fine-to-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459232\/","title":{"rendered":"South West Water will not pass on any parasite fine to customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Pennon Group, which owns the utility, said the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cm2x8n5r0lxo#:~:text=A%20parasite%20outbreak%20in%20Devon,supply%20in%20the%20Brixham%20area\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">parasite outbreak contributed to a nearly \u00a340m bill for the company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Customers who were affected by the boil water notice, and those who were unwell, were offered compensation by South West Water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lisa Horswill, who was among those affected, said the conviction of the water company was &#8220;bittersweet because it&#8217;s been really unpleasant for some of us trying to fight for justice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The fines are only going to be passed on to us and that&#8217;s not right,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her partner Kris said any fine &#8220;would not be enough&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A South West Water spokesperson said: &#8220;We can confirm customers do not pay for fines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The inspectorate said the fine was &#8220;unlimited under the legislation, however, it will be up to the judge to determine the most appropriate fine&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennon Group, which owns the utility, said the parasite outbreak contributed to a nearly \u00a340m bill for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-459232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459232","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=459232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}