The supplied text contains the article’s headline but not its reported body. It indicates that water-company executives received multi-million-pound pay increases despite pollution scandals and restrictions on bonuses, raising concerns about accountability in a regulated public service.

No company names, individual salaries, pay-rise amounts, dates, regulatory decisions or pollution incidents are included in the provided extract. The navigation material and unrelated headlines do not provide enough evidence to verify the article’s specific claims or context.