You'll want to be sitting down for this bit.
Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends.
And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇
RECORD BROKEN ⛓️💥
Tomorrow is set to be the highest-attended home game in Charlton Women’s history, surpassing the previous record set against Arsenal in 2003 👊
#cafc
@LowerTiers There are some benefits to being old after all! Fortunate to have been at all 4 of Charlton’s Play Off Final victories since 1987 ❤️ #cafc#playoffs
@EFL@swfc@SkyBet Oh do give over! I was at the greatest Play off final ever and it wasn’t this one! It was in 1998 when Charlton beat Sunderland 11-10!
Dulverton Primary School will represent @CAFCofficial tomorrow in the Utilita Kids Cup national final at Wembley Stadium, after winning both our local tournament and regional finals against other Championship club representatives 🏟️
As part of their Wembley preparations, Dulverton have toured Sparrows Lane and met Addicks players and staff, including play-off winning captains Greg Docherty and Jason Pearce 🤝
The squad also faced current holders @StMarysEltham in a pre-Wembley friendly, with Dulverton now aiming to make it back-to-back Wembley wins for Charlton as south-east London’s representatives this weekend 🏆
#cafc | @FSD_CACT
Water UK says water companies won’t treat whole classes of pollutants because it is not legally required.
The big NGOs say no new laws are needed.
That is functional alignment.
Stop the soft-ask scam. Update the law.
#EndSewagePollution@RiverActionUK@sascampaigns@WaterUK
The Great British supermarket farmwashing scandal. Giving off the impression of food being from British farms, but the food is often not from Britain, but from overseas.
It’s time to end supermarket farmwashing that cons shoppers into thinking they are buying British farm food, when it’s foreign food.
It’s not just a con. It hurts British farmers by consumers being tricked into buying foreign food rather than British food. It’s time for clear country of origin labelling on all supermarket food.
So you can have water that:
•legally passes standards,
•is considered safe by regulators,
•but still contains trace amounts of substances like chlorine byproducts, pesticides, PFAS, pharmaceuticals, or microplastics at levels currently deemed acceptable 🤢
In 1854, John Snow, a doctor, defied Victorian society in his battle against the most feared disease of the age: cholera. As cholera ravaged the streets of London, Snow traced death itself to a single water pump in Soho.
How in 2026 are water companies up and down the country still dumping raw untreated sewage into our water sources. Then treating the water coming into our homes with chemicals. How much longer will they get away with this risk to public health?