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Crap politics: from the rivers to the sea
Crap politics: from the rivers to the sea
When it comes to the water industry, we need to put the interests of society before those of speculators. ALAN SIMPSON has some ideas about how to bring about the change we need
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HANK ROBERTS welcomes news that asbestos has been judged too dangerous to leave in situ in schools and public buildings, and issues a clarion call to readers to help make sure action is actually taken
VICTOR GROSSMAN believes peace in Ukraine needs to come before anything else and abhors the EU's insane drive to keep the war going on
THE headlines about illegal sewage disposals have been stark enough. They make the nation’s map look like a bad case of chicken pox. Now the owners of Thames Water have defaulted on the debts they owe. The situation spirals from bad to worse.
• Water companies have dumped four million hours’ worth of sewage into Britain’s rivers during the last year;
• This is a 129 per cent increase on the previous year;
• Fish in the Portsmouth estuary now test positive for cocaine, anti-depressants and the contraceptive pill;
• In the 35 years before privatisation the UK built almost 100 reservoirs, in the 35 years since then none have been built, and
• Post-Brexit, the UK has opted for lower water standards than the rest of the EU.
The water industry claims sewage dumping is down to more torrential downpours and more vigorous national monitoring of “sewage spills” by the Environment Agency. But pause and think about this for a moment.
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