According to Top of the Poops, an organisation monitoring sewage discharges across the UK, the Central Devon constituency was the seventh worst in the country for sewage dumps last year, with more than 4,500 separate dumps, amounting to more than 43,000 hours of sewage pumping. The Newton Abbot constituency saw more than 2,000 sewage dumps, amounting to 2,900 hours of sewage discharge. The Environmental Agency gave South West Water its worst environmental rating of just one star, a score shared only with Southern Water.
