So let me see if I've got this right.
@Southernwater who sold off 35 reservoirs in just five years making £26 million in the process, who leaks about 34 billion litres of water per year from their badly maintained, underinvested, creaky old network of pipes is telling customer to stop using water, to ration it.
Well that's alright then.
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Appears the French aren't happy with our sh*t washing up on their beaches.
"In the United Kingdom, this scandal that poisons the rivers. Privatised since Thatcher and the victim of under-investment, the sewer network is overflowing and waste water is flowing into the Channel and the North Sea."
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
A Birmingham man is using social media to highlight the issue of litter on the streets where he lives. Alan Webb posts images on X as he wanders around Digbeth in his lunch break picking up rubbish. He’s on a mission to persuade people that dropping litter is "unacceptable".
The video that @SkySportsNews cowardly deleted and tried to hide. Showing that the @FA@FA_PGMOL control the media. 👇
2:41 - “I’m aware the PGMOL feel aggrieved by criticism from ex-players”
The PGMOL are trying to control pundits, ex-players, and most importantly, YOU. 🫵
Despite the fact that it rains a lot in the UK, so many road drains aren’t being regularly cleared by local councils. It’s hardly a surprise that road flooding occurs. We pay our council taxes but without getting the basic essentials of local community infrastructure maintenance.
Micah Richards on Lewis-Skelly’s red card: “That’s the WORST decision I’ve ever seen in Premier League history. How on earth they can go to VAR, look at it multiple times & they still think that is a red? It was so poor.” 😤
🎥 @RestIsFootball
Prime Minister thinks the unnecessary killing of millions of fish is funny - we don't.
In his article on changes to judicial reviews in today's media (23rd January 2025), the Prime Minister said, " 'it is fear of challenge which leads to ... the proposal to install an "acoustic fish deterrent" – 288 underwater speakers designed to scare fish away from Hinkley Point C nuclear power station. I wish I was joking.’"
The PM seems to think this is some kind of joke. We don't.
Even with the other mitigation measures in place, the saltwater intakes of Hinckley C will kill millions of fish each year as it sucks water out of the Severn Estuary for cooling purposes.
The Severn Estuary is one of the most protected environments in the UK. It is also a vitally important migratory route for critically endangered fish species such as shad and Atlantic salmon, and it is an incredibly important area for many marine fish, like bass, skates and rays, and cod, both as spawning ground and nursery habitats. The estuary and the rivers it connects to are popular angling destinations generating massive economic benefits to communities at the coast and up its rivers.
Stuart Singleton-White, Head of Campaigns at the Angling Trust said "Such comments by the Prime Minister show this government does not take the nature crisis seriously and has no wish to honour its international commitments to biodiversity, nor has any intention of meeting its 30X30 commitment to protect 30% of nature by 2030. A healthy, productive environment is a fundamental building block of a healthy, productive, growth economy. It is a shame the government do not seem to accept this."
Singleton-White continues, "We will not stop pushing for these fish deterrents to be installed or other measures to protect all marine fish species impacted by Hinkley Point C. The Angling Trust and the nearly two million anglers will keep fighting for healthy fish populations as vital to functioning ecosystems and a successful economy."
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Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
Well that didn't take long. Less than 10 minutes into the hearing and the water industry is already trying to blame @Ofwat for the devastating lack of investment.
Let me remind them, for 35 years WCs have annually "Certified" to Ofwat that they know the law says and that they been given all of the funding needed to build, operate and maintain an properly functioning sewage system... Where's our money gone?! @CommonsEFRA