Getting thirsty in the hot spell? Your private water firms won’t help you
Clean water: enjoy the photograph. Soon the only clean water you’ll see will be in images like this – unless YOU put a stop to the privatised water scandal.
It’s getting hotter in the UK; the reservoirs are starting to dry out – and our water supplies are starting to evaporate with them.
The water firms are struggling to provide water to all the homes that need it already, and are still pumping raw sewage into our waterways, creating a vastly increased risk of disease that should never have happened, but that is supported by the votes of the Conservative government.
Meanwhile, people within the industry are trying to blame those of us who actually try to get out and enjoy our natural environment for highlighting their sewage-dumping crimes, as though it would all be fine otherwise:
"Water chief blames wild swimmers and canoeists for highlighting sewage scandal."
See, if only you'd all mind your own bloody business, stop swimming, canoeing, fishing and in fact being anywhere near a river none of this would have happened.
GOT THAT!https://t.co/w4Nb2mH1El
— Feargal Sharkey (@Feargal_Sharkey) June 18, 2023
Water UK is the trade association representing private water companies in the United Kingdom – with 25 firms on the mainland and four associates. May we assume that Mr Henderson was speaking for all of them when he came out with this nonsense?
Meanwhile, here’s a round-up of what those water companies have been doing. I’ll show you these without comment because anything from This Writer will be superfluous:
This is what 30 years of corporate greed, profiteering and regulatory incompetence looks like.
"South East Water: Dozens of homes in East Sussex still without water."https://t.co/hVcJX3YXmq
— Feargal Sharkey (@Feargal_Sharkey) June 19, 2023
E.coli found in Blackpool sea following raw sewage discharge
Untreated sewage flowed into the Fylde Coast on Monday, and a no swim warning remains in place
Affected areas include Blackpool, Lytham St Annes, Cleveleys, Bispham, Fleetwood@Feargal_Sharkey https://t.co/cavTzRkSVG
— Socialist Voice (@SocialistVoice) June 16, 2023
"UK river pollution monitoring is 50 years out of date… Levels of pollutants in the UK's rivers are tested by random sampling, a method that experts say is decades out of date and not thorough enough to tackle the issues facing the waterways."https://t.co/ph4CpLvtfk
— Feargal Sharkey (@Feargal_Sharkey) June 18, 2023
"A crooked water company boss from Exeter sponged tens of thousands of pounds from trusting girlfriends".
I'd argue water company bosses have been sponging billions from bill payers for decades. https://t.co/DmVtuOzlxX
— Feargal Sharkey (@Feargal_Sharkey) June 18, 2023
Finally, here’s a piece that sums up the situation:
"'We need water companies that are fit for purpose': the CEO of Ofwat on regulating England’s polluted rivers."
We need a water industry regulator that's fit for purpose more like. @willydunn https://t.co/3qj5v6nv4g
— Feargal Sharkey (@Feargal_Sharkey) June 19, 2023
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Labour are quiet on this with no plans to solve the problems, like all the others will be much worse when they win the election
Expect worse to come ! The criminals in the tory government and water companies will allow the polution to continue….as long as the bribes keep flowing, Starmer and his racist, fake labour, tory party will support whatever criminality the tories are involved in….