Windrush WASP

Windrush Against Sewage Pollution- using data analysis and investigation to expose the regulatory failure and promote improvement. www,

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

Feargal is talking about this petition https://t.co/p7dZoNJONr
Ignore the governments attempt to put you off with its untrue response. Take control of your bills away from the profiteers.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

The Environment Agency has assessed 4,658 surface water bodies against a range of standards covering wildlife, water quality and physical habitat.

The goal for the end of the year is for 75% of England's rivers and lakes to be in 'good ecological status'.

Sky's @SeabrookClimate has visited the River Windrush in Oxfordshire.

🔗 https://t.co/o2A7PpmZ4s

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

".. probably the greatest criminal fraud ever perpetrated on the people of England & Wales"

@Feargal_Sharkey on the privatised water industry.

The solution is simple. Prosecute the bosses, fine the companies into bankruptcy & take our water back.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I have heard many people in the water industry and indeed some in government repeating the lie, why I wonder?

Of the £91 billion being spent by water companies over the next 5 years £90 billion of it, that's 99% it is being funded directly from bill payers pockets, from your bank account and mine, not shareholders.

Which raises the obvious question, what actually is the point of the shareholders, why do we need them?

Interview starts 2 hours 45 minutes into the programme.

https://t.co/3xp9Vh9RHC

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

UK Govt contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules.

Why does it have to be either, or? Job creation should not be a trade-off with protecting the environment

Climbdown whilst planet burns, crops fail, food prices rocket.
https://t.co/KfBvJJpYSE

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

@premnsikka Water industry owners and bosses laughing in the face of the public and their own staff while the government keeps us captive to their scam.

[IlkleyCleanRiver @CleanIlkley]

Tomorrow. 150 registered so far. @BBCLookNorth @officialinews_ @yorkshirepost @YorksBylines @northernecho look forward to seeing you there. Enough with never ending profiteering, extortionate pay, unchecked sewage pollution. Gov needs to put Thames into SAR to lift the bonnet on the finances and state of the assets, whilst setting up public ownership of water. Safe, reliable, resilient water for our health, wealth and security.

[IlkleyCleanRiver @CleanIlkley]

163K signatures. Please sign so we get an actual say in the future of water. We pay. Shareholders profit. Noone listens. https://t.co/IfT7T9BtyK

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

@BladeoftheS Create a crisis, a big one, and watch the panic bring the money in. The creators should be paying the price not orofiting from it.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

What about Water.

Not one reservoir built in 35 years.

But then when you are Privatised and only care about profits and water scarcity lets you put up your bills.

You are never going to build any reservoirs are you?

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

Water companies in England prioritised shareholders over customers for years. Now we're all paying the price.

Enough is enough. Water in 90% of the rest of the world is publicly owned. It’s time to end the failed ideological experiment, and bring England’s water into public ownership.

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

Paris is resurfacing its lost rivers. The Bièvre was once completely covered over with concrete. Now, the river is being revealed and revitalized. We should do this much more in London! https://t.co/GE2rPiUBfY

[Plastic free NW Leeds 🐟🌎🐝🇪🇺 @PFreeNWLeeds]

I’m going to this tomorrow, last chance to get your tickets and do come say hello 👋

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

@We_OwnIt Well done. If campaigners make claims like that the BBC rightly insists they come up with the evidence, while polluters, regulators and government are allowed to put out any old garbage and downright lies witbout challenge. Why is that?.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

On the BBC Radio 4's Today Programme on 31 July, Thames Water CEO Chris Weston claimed that public ownership of Thames Water means no investment in infrastructure, as the service would compete with other public services for cash.

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗺𝘆𝘁𝗵. As Sophie explains, the truth is that every penny of Thames Water's planned investment will come directly from our water bills.
https://t.co/qtYUmq3MqA

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

@Feargal_Sharkey @FT Charging us to destroy our environment and making us pay for the PR to persuade us it's not their fault.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Southern Water want to rob the River Test of 1/3 of its flows.

“Southern Water is arguing yet again that corporate greed and ineptitude should surpass the needs of the environment,”

Me in today’s @FT

https://t.co/TmdBGhotfT

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

Since 2021, the 10 largest private water companies in the UK have hiked up their bills by an average of 56% while spilling sewage more than 1.8 million times 💰💩

Find out what the sewage scandal has cost you – and send Andy Burnham a message 👇
https://t.co/PGRsAe1ljN

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

@GoodLawProject https://t.co/p7dZoNJONr
Please sign, because government knows all this and is still supporting the profiteers.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

After being rejected 4 times, Thames Water's creditors are now submitting a 5th proposal to keep the failing utility in private hands. This time, they're promising to increase public control.

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻.

Take just 2 mins to email your MP. Give them the facts about the Thames Water creditors' deal and urge them to write to Environment Secretary Angela Eagle.

https://t.co/sgrChRttDY

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Turn failing water firms into not-for-profit cooperatives, MPs and mayors tell PM.

Issues:
Corporate debt would be transferred to co-ops.
Co-ops would borrow for investment at commercial rates, not govt rates.
High debt cost, bills.

Need public ownership
https://t.co/UQITciyvco