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Water and sewerage bills will fall after April 2015 and even more help will be available for customers struggling with cost of living pressures.

The latest results for compliance to the European Bathing Water Directive by UK coastal and inland bathing waters show that:
• 95.4% of UK bathing waters met the minimum standard - that is 595 out of 624 bathing waters
• 60% of bathing waters met the Directive’s excellent standard

The UK public are being urged to ditch single use plastic water bottles and switch to a reusable water bottle to cut plastic pollution

Water companies are set to complete a five-year investment programme worth £25 billion, while keeping rises in the average household water and sewerage bill below inflation in 2014-15. In November 2009, a five-year package of investment and prices was finalised and April 2014 sees the final year of that package.