Part 5: Water Section 81: Reporting on discharges from storm overflows New section 141DA Reporting on discharges from storm overflows
New section 141DA establishes the legal requirement for sewerage undertakers wholly or mainly in England to report in near real time on when a discharge starts and stops.
	Subsection (1) sets out the specific information a sewerage undertake wholly or mainly in England must publish when a discharge from a storm overflow occurs. This includes its location and when it began.
	Subsection (2) requires that the information must be reported within one hour of the discharge starting, and within one hour of it finishing.
	Subsection (3) requires the information to be published in a format which must be both easily understandable and easily accessible by the public.
	Subsection (4) refers to enforcement powers at section 18 of the Water Industry Act 1991.
	Subsection (5) allows the Minister to make regulations that set out exemptions to the publication of information (under subsection (1)) and the time limit for doing so (under subsection (2)).
	Subsection (6) requires the Minister to consult on the draft regulations with such persons as the Minister considers appropriate.
	Subsection (7) sets out that regulations made under new section 141DA are made by statutory instrument under the draft affirmative resolution procedure.