Sewage woes

JohnD

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" Reducing sewage pollution in UK waters must be a “public health priority”, said the chief medical officer for England.

Backing a report produced by the Royal Academy of Engineering on how sewage spillages could be reduced, Sir Chris Whitty said that “minimising human faecal organisms in fresh water is a public health priority as well as an environmental one”.

He added: “The human health aspect is one of the things that needs to be taken seriously when we’re measuring the quality of water.”

His comments come days after several thousand households in Devon were forced to boil drinking water because of a waterborne parasite, and after a report that millions of litres of raw sewage had been pumped into Windermere, England’s largest lake, on one day earlier this year.

Water companies are facing a growing backlash over sewage pollution, with thousands of campaigners holding demonstrations at beaches last weekend to mark the official start of the swimming season."

FT.com

The privatised water industry is a national disaster.

It is now receiving long-overdue attention.

Not before time.
 
I was under the impression that the excessive rainfall we’ve been having has made a bad situation far worse.

And of course building on flood plains didn’t help either.

I’ll blame all governments since the 1970’s for the sheer lack of planning AND more recently enforcement
 
There must be a couple of hundred number one priorities by now.
Is a grubby river worse than a best rapist copper?
 
Justin Passing said:
There must be a couple of hundred number one priorities by now.
Is a grubby river worse than a best rapist copper?
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Yes. Yes it is. It's much, much worse. Far worse.
You'd soon change your mind when you go to the West Country on your hols and drink the water.
The Torquay Hottrots will make you wish you'd gone to Bognor.
 
Odds said:
Yes. Yes it is. It's much, much worse. Far worse.
You'd soon change your mind when you go to the West Country on your hols and drink the water.
The Torquay Hottrots will make you wish you'd gone to Bognor.
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Both crap both need dealing with.
 
This boils down thar too many people are not doing their jobs properly. Too many takers and not a lot of giving.
 
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