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.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Water firm labelled 'worst-run company' after outages."

So first it's going to be Thames Water that gets nationalised, then South East Water, who's next?

https://t.co/kjFCW5qVz9

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The idea that in recent days whole towns and villages were blatantly, deliberately cut off from the public water supply because water companies haven't invested in enough equipment to treat and supply water is utter madness.

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

Oops! Ofwat lets the cat out of the bag..

Welsh Water has agreed £45 M will be paid from its profits..

Welsh Water is described as a not for profit organisation.

Have they by any chance been conning the public?

[Ofwat @Ofwat]

Dŵr Cymru will pay a £44.7m enforcement package, after breaching their legal obligations relating to the service they provide for the environment and their customers https://t.co/NI8BbwQkfA

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

So the punishment for a bunch of overpaid executives cynically breaking the law is that they have to run the company as it should be run until they go back to the old way again?

And the taxpayer/billpayer funded your work and investigation - they don't even pay for that?

Or have we missed something?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Swimmers warned to avoid sewage release area."

Southern Water up to their old tricks again I see. Sewage illegally dumped into the sea and people told to say out of the water.

When are govt going to get a grip?

https://t.co/3jNNjEmDwF

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

@Idomac2 It's water - essential and it's a monopoly - 35 years of prvatisation have shown how easily and ruthlessly those advatages can be exploited and how impossible it is to regulate effectively.

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

What sort of government has off-the-record meetings with bosses of water companies that they know are breaking the law on an industrial scale.

First, the regulators and now the government, embroiled in the dirty business.

What did you talk about with the Thames Water Chairman who diverted over £1billion of customers' money out of investment to reduce pollution to the benefit of him and the owners instead, Environment Secretary @EmmaforWycombe ?

https://t.co/CIYWBaWGCy

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

The Secretary of State for the Environment @EmmaforWycombe thinks it is OK to have 'off the record' meetings with water bosses who could end up in criminal court if @Defra did its job properly.

And who dictates whether Defra does its job properly?

That would be the same Secretary of State.

It's a #dirtybusiness for sure.

https://t.co/CIYWBaWGCy

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

@Feargal_Sharkey @AndyBurnhamGM Whatever you think - make it something the givernment can't ignore, fudge or, as at the moment - falsify

Sign and share and stop the scam
https://t.co/p7dZoNJONr

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

Are we wakingup yet?
Privatisation - a crazy deal signed mostly against our will in 1989, where water company owners don't put put their money into fixing the business and just extract as much of our cash as they can get away with.

- and now our government is lying to us to keep it running.

You can fight back - sign and share - https://t.co/J5ADoh2hre

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Another investigation into Royal Mail failure to deliver post.

Previous ones approved higher prices, lower post delivery targets.

RM hasn't hit delivery target for 1st-class post since 2017, 2nd-class mail since 2020.

Another failed privatisation.
https://t.co/OZmHdNUTtW

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

Shocking 👇 the government's decision to say no to public ownership of water MUST be revisited

Mandelson co-founded Global Counsel which lobbied for privatised water

Both Environment Secretaries Steve Reed and Emma Reynolds were clearly close to him

https://t.co/ivPGBO9gSH

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Andy Burnham has launched a scathing attack on 'profiteering' water companies, demanding United Utilities cancel its final dividend payment to shareholders in August."

Now there's something we could all vote for, well done @AndyBurnhamGM

Tip of the hat sir. 👏👏👏

https://t.co/mdAjIqIpPi

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

@SaulStaniforth Please sign and share https://t.co/p7dZoNJONr

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

🥳101 MPs 🥳

That's the number of MPs who have signed now signed our open letter to Ofwat and the Environment Secretary.

101 MPs saying NO to Thames Water setting its own rules on sewage pollution.

101 MPs saying NO to a dangerous new low for the water sector.

101 MPs calling for Thames Water to be placed in special administration.

Is your MP one of them? https://t.co/Gp69mnfZFD

[Dave Throup @DaveThroup]

This is cobblers.

The water shortage was a result of SE Water not being able to treat water fast enough to meet increased demand.

A failure of capacity and infrastructure.

[Dr Matt Prescott @mattprescott]

* it should take weeks for RESERVOIRS to run low, not days / hours

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

@paulmasonnews Howcto start that ball rolling
https://t.co/p7dZoNJONr

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

@TaylorGrimesDog Not loans. No capital. Used our money and charged us 40p in the £ to do it. Massive scam

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

Watching privatised water wreck the local economy in Whitstable, while our government tells us how it would be too expensive to stop being ripped off by these rogue traders, and we need to keep the money flowing to them.

Make them pay heavy compensation for this or watch it spread.

@sewateruk @EmmaforWycombe @SOSWhitstable @RosieDuffield1

[The Independent @Independent]

Thousands without water supply after reservoirs ‘reach critical level’ https://t.co/wVmiYmz9F6

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

@labourlewis Government negligence underpinning profiteering