Since Water was Privatised

Our village is supplied by Northumbrian Water; I know for certain that the CEO of Northumbrian Water, a neighbour, and he does NOT drink tap water ever.

EDIT: My mistake not CEO then, obviously from looking at the list of directors, but another senior figure

#UTB
 
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About 25 years ago (when I worked for NWL) we had a stall at the Cleveland Show, where we held a taste test.
We took a couple of crates of Abbey Well bottled water, emptied the contents and filled the bottles with tap water. This was fridged overnight before the show as were crates of the original bottled water.

We invited the general public to try a bottle and tell us which was which - most couldn't detect a difference - and those that did only got the answers right about 50% of the time. In fact we had prizes available for anybody who got the right answer three times in a row and we didn't give many away

The bottled water industry (and that includes totally unnecessary water filters) is probably the biggest con ever inflicted on the British people.
 
Alan_Breck said:
Our village is supplied by Northumbrian Water; I know for certain that the CEO of Northumbrian Water, a neighbour, and he does NOT drink tap water ever.

EDIT: My mistake not CEO then, obviously from looking at the list of directors, but another senior figure

#UTB
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There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the water. They have to pass very stringent quality tests in fact. Those working on the water network must be qualified as well.
 
The River Wye has been completely polluted by Chicken waste and at times human waste. 30 years ago it was the best salmon river in England. People used to earn a living salmon fishing in the 1970s. I think there are 9m chickens being bred/farmed along the river and the its tributories. The river can't cope. Most of the sewage works are now very old and when they get busy they are allowed to discharge raw sewage. The river is managed by Welsh Water a company that is supposed to be run for its customers and does not pay dividends. The Enviromment Agency don't seem interested in manging pollution any longer. They also are a not for profit organisation. The issue here is not profits but just getting organisations to actually do their jobs and work fully in the interests of the general public.
 
Yeah but the problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money. Apparently.

Struggling to see how that differs from what we've seen from capitalism.

Only difference is where "other people's money" goes. Well that and it's actually true of capitalism*.

*well uncontrolled capitalism/neoliberlism. Which us what the tories have successfully convinced the turkeys is best for them over the years.
 
Redwurzel said:
The River Wye has been completely polluted by Chicken waste and at times human waste. 30 years ago it was the best salmon river in England. People used to earn a living salmon fishing in the 1970s. I think there are 9m chickens being bred/farmed along the river and the its tributories. The river can't cope. Most of the sewage works are now very old and when they get busy they are allowed to discharge raw sewage. The river is managed by Welsh Water a company that is supposed to be run for its customers and does not pay dividends. The Enviromment Agency don't seem interested in manging pollution any longer. They also are a not for profit organisation. The issue here is not profits but just getting organisations to actually do their jobs and work fully in the interests of the general public.
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The EA has been decimated by Tory austerity to the point they haven’t got the resources. In England, they relay on the Water Companies telling them about pollution events. In fairness to NWL, they always inform, but others clearly don’t all the time.
 
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