Sewage dumping continues – does it happen near water SHAREHOLDERS’ homes?
Don’t pay attention to the political message if you don’t want to; the factual message is big enough:
Clean water is the basic measurement of a functioning state. 86% of UK water fails to meet the necessary standard.
Our families deserve better than excrement in our waterways. pic.twitter.com/nIFiO2KBCV
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) August 23, 2023
The trouble is, we are getting excrement in our waterways and it is harming our environment and making people ill:
Harlyn Bay, Cornwall back in the news again. Not in the least shocking considering there had been 13 sewage dumps between 18 June and 18 August with 8 in July alone.
Pretty standard stuff for @SouthWestWater https://t.co/PmnLRfOe2U
— Feargal Sharkey (@Feargal_Sharkey) August 23, 2023
Meanwhile, look at the benefits reaped by shareholders who aren’t paying for the materials to clean our water and are instead just flushing it into our rivers:
Between 2012 – 2022 @AnglianWater paid shareholders £4.6 billion and now they want to put up your water bill because they didn't spend enough on infrastructure.
No doubt you'll remember that come the general election. Oh, and @ofwat did what exactly?https://t.co/zcE3xDOZ5w
— Feargal Sharkey (@Feargal_Sharkey) August 23, 2023
It seems to This Writer that one way of ensuring the water firms didn’t abuse their government-backed ability to pump crap at us whenever they felt like it would have been simple: make it a legal requirement for them to pump sewage into shareholders’ and executives’ neighbourhoods before anywhere else.
It’s very easy to green-light flooding a place with disease-ridden goop when it isn’t the place where you live. I wonder whether water bosses would be quite so enthusiastic if they had to face irate neighbours to justify incidents like this…
Toxic blue-green algae on the River Bann, NI. The river is fed from the now heavily polluted Lough Neagh with all of that crap emptying into the Atlantic ocean at Castlerock.
The River Bann used to be one of the finest salmon rivers in western Europe.https://t.co/smbRjQESLp
— Feargal Sharkey (@Feargal_Sharkey) August 23, 2023
… or this:
10.0ppm / 3.06 = a phosphorus reading of 3.267ppm
Phosphorous background levels in a healthy river should be somewhere between 0.005 – 0.05ppm. 🤬 https://t.co/kzom1vduCz
— Feargal Sharkey (@Feargal_Sharkey) August 22, 2023
It’s a measure that never seems to occur to our Tory legislators, who are quite happy for the outflows to release their loads into other people’s back yards.
And what can you do about it?
Well, maybe you don’t like the Green Party, whose campaign image appears above – but you don’t have to put up with the crap dished out at you by the other two parties mentioned in that image. Find somebody who won’t fill your life with unnecessary excrement and support them instead.
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And what makes the government believe that the increases in water charges would actually go towards maintenance? Profits haven’t helped maintain the system so are they saying more profit will?
Hahahahahahaha! Oh dear, never mind.