Water industry.

Billyzin

Well-known member
They are going to clean up their act, but we'll be paying for it.

 
Or they’ll pay more in dividends, as we’ve been here before when they initially took over. M

It’s a money grab
Exactly, these private companies, just like in the energy sector, exist only to take customer's money and give it to shareholders. The actual service, whether providing water or energy, means absolutely nothing to them.

There is no way on earth that water or energy should ever be privatised. It is purely theft on a multi billion pound national level.
 
The water company serving the lakes is pumping untreated sewerage "overspill" into Lake Windermere.
In one particular area there is algae which is so thick and deep it has killed the creatures and plants which grow on the bed and is effecting the fish.
Its terrible that this situation is allowed to persist.
Apparently, their are the shoots of local environmental opposition to what`s happening to the largest lake in Cumbria.
we read wharts happening around our coasts with beaches where schit is washing up with the tide.
Is this really our country or are we being taken for idiots?
What can we do about it?

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Sewage in Windermere is killing 'crown jewel of the Lake District', says campaigner

Steve Coogan, Joe Lycett, Lee Mack and Paul Whitehouse have allied with Save Windermere to protect the World Heritage Site. Founder and Cumbrian zoologist Matt Staniek says the lake is under threat

Nada FarhoudEnvironment editor.
24 May 2023

A string of top comedians have backed a campaign to stop the “slow death” of England’s largest lake.

Steve Coogan, Joe Lycett, Lee Mack and Paul Whitehouse have allied with Save Windermere to protect the World Heritage Site.

Founder and Cumbrian zoologist Matt Staniek says the lake is under threat by the amount of sewage pumped into it.

In 2022, there were 246 full days of untreated sewage being discharged from storm overflows into the Windermere catchment, with United Utilities the biggest culprit.

Matt said: “If sewage is going into Windermere, imagine what’s happening to your local river.

“The most significant thing we have just received from the water industry is an apology. It acknowledges their responsibility for the current situation.

“What we lack is a comprehensive, visionary plan that guarantees the long-term protection of the crown jewel of the Lake District.
Paul Whitehouse is backing the campaign

Paul Whitehouse is backing the campaign.

The quartet of comedians will be joining Matt at a Save Windermere event at Bowness-on-Windermere on Monday.

United Utilities said: “We know there is much more to be done.”

Matt, 26, set up the campaign after he broke his neck in a car accident and daily visits to Lake Windermere became part of his recovery process.

Forced to wear a neck brace for 10 weeks, the 26-year-old took up photography in 2019 as a means to stop himself “from going completely insane”.

Encountering otters, kingfishers and dippers he said he became obsessed with the variety of wildlife that could be spotted from the bank of England’s largest lake.

But three years on he says these species have now disappeared.

“In this period of time I noticed something very concerning, a very sudden decline in water quality and the amount of wildlife I was seeing,” he said.

His monitoring recently found that species of invertebrates downstream from sewage treatment works at Ambleside had declined by 44 per cent.

He has raised £16,000 in crowdfunding so far, which he says will enable him to gather evidence for the Environment Agency “to actually do their job”.




 
Some things should not be privatised. Water being the most obvious one from the amount of shy te that we now pump into the sea. Its a national embarrassment and disgrace. Here we are trying to preach to other countries on climate change and green energy, meanwhile we pump the sea & rivers full of our turds.
 
I’m sick to the back teeth of the corruption In our once great nation.

The Tory scum has seen to it that we have literally turned into a cesspit of pi55 and 5hit. How this can go unchecked and have the cheek to up the publics bills to pay for it. We should be on the streets over this our beautiful landmarks and ecological system is being polluted for profit.
 
I’m sick to the back teeth of the corruption In our once great nation.

The Tory scum has seen to it that we have literally turned into a cesspit of pi55 and 5hit. How this can go unchecked and have the cheek to up the publics bills to pay for it. We should be on the streets over this our beautiful landmarks and ecological system is being polluted for profit.
There should be direct action taken agaisnt the CEOs of these companies
 
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