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[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

“Don't swim' at 12 of 14 river bathing sites, as more locations announced.”

Here’s something to wrap your head around.

The only stretch of river graded as ‘Good’ is at Friars Meadow, Sudbury yet from 13th March to the 13th April Anglian Water dumped sewage into Friars Meadow nonstop 24 hours a day for 31 days straight. If you went swimming there during the Easter holidays you were probably swimming in human waste but none of it shows in the data because the EA don’t even bother testing until the middle of May.

PS the EA don’t actually test any bathing site in the country for most of the year 7 and a half months in fact. You go swimming between 1st Oct one year and 15th May the next you’re on your own.

https://t.co/VGBvWJVhkQ

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Fish farms and pollution in Scotland."

Meanwhile in that idilic paradise north of the border.....

Atlantic salmon are on the brink of extinction yet salmon farms in Scotland are still allowed to dump the equivalent of 2.5 million people sh*tting directly into the sea, all of it untreated.

https://t.co/aGeZBul0ut

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Water boss resigns after multiple supply failures."

The real question is why did shareholders let him stay so long. What say you @NatWestGroup 25% shareholder?

https://t.co/4tq7FRzy7S

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Southern Water illegally dumped sewage after £90m fine."

And that my friends is why the public should now be allowed to decide the future of the water industry.

Govt can't be trusted, regulators can't be trusted, the industry can't be trusted. WHO CAN YOU TRUST?

https://t.co/k7oMokzBKA

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry.

Do your thing internet.

https://t.co/kZz1cXBtz3

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Southern Water admits sewage pollution which occurred weeks after record fine."

In 2021 Southern Water was fined £90,000,000 for illegally dumping sewage into the environment on almost 7,000 separate occasions.

They have now also admitted that for the following 2 years they kept on illegally dumping sewage into Swalecliffe Brook in Whitstable and Faversham Creek causing fish kills and widespread devastation.

Can someone explain to me why the CEO and directors aren't going to jail for this?

https://t.co/wSr8NwpyQM

[JHT 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💐 @JanSponge]

@CliffCliffmac @helenecrook67 @CSPScheme It is mostly resolved. I've had my lump sum and montly pension has just started with back pay, but no pay slip or P60. Try calling them? Apparently it's easier to get through now. Good luck 🤞

[JHT 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💐 @JanSponge]

@CSPScheme Please help! 🙏 I applied for my pension in August. No response. I have only received automatic emails. The portal is useless. Tried phoning but can't get through. I'm now very concerned.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The Swans Against Sewage everyone. Fablious. 👏👏👏

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The Hogsmill River is one of just two urban chalk streams in the whole of London and this is what we do to them.... 🤬

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

All hail @PrivateEyeNews

Brilliant story about how one of the proposed new owners of Thames Water is offering up a £25 million "Community Benefit Trust" (CBT) to "support" local environment and community groups but only on condition that TW are exempt from environment law and any threat of prosecution for at least the next 5 years.

In other words we'll pay a £25 million bribe to local river groups and charities to shut them up, it's hush money, it's blood money, it's a bride.

The Evenlode Catchment Partnership (ECP) knows better of course, they've already handed back £135K to Thames Water after they realised they were simply been used and the only people benefiting from the arrangement was Thames Water.

Other river charities would do well to follow ECP's example, don't accept the hush money, don't accept the blood money, it is after all nothing more than a bribe.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Five UK water companies spent more than £32mn on appeal to raise bills."

The Competition & Markets Authority ruled that 4 of those companies would be allowed to increase water bills by a further £463 million.

You gamble £32m and you make a £431m return.... good days work I'd say...

https://t.co/v3wIpQjp7h

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Proof if ever it were needed.

In the last 2 years investigating officers at the Environment Agency have recommended that fat cat water industry bosses should be prosecuted on 5 separate occasions.

On each and every occasion senior management at the EA overrode that decision. 👇👇👇

Really, what is the point?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And there is the nub of it all, yet more spin from the EA and Defra.

Reality? 3,000 breach’s of England’s pollution laws and not a damn thing happens to any water industry fat cat, CEO or board member.

What a hoax.

[Denby Pottery @denbypottery]

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[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And here's the thing Ofwat already has the power to do exactly that, simply issue an enforcement order, see section 18 of the Water Industries Act 1991.

In fact the law requires that Ofwat SHALL issue an enforcement order. Any failure to comply means Ofwat can then fine South East Water anything up to 10% of their turnover or revoke their operating licence. @ThreshedThought

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Sewage runs through Fort Hill, Margate."

Southern Water up to their old tricks again I see. "But we're fixing it, we're fixing it," Yea right of course you are.

https://t.co/nUD1vQsmvo

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I've always found this incredible useful. An easy guide to exactly how much sh*t your local water company is in.

Southern Water customer, 27% of your bill it doing nothing but paying interest on their stinking pile of debt.

Thames Water, 28%, Anglian Water, 24% and on, and on, and on..........

https://t.co/RATNjUmc7i

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"London is opening a Thames bathing spot… full of toxic chemicals."

You have been warned.

https://t.co/i2itlyiiFz

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Recent testing had uncovered 'horrendous' levels of pollution in the waterway, according to the Bedfordshire Great Ouse Valley Environmental Trust."

Can you imagine it, basically swimming in your own waste.

https://t.co/ow10Loc52c

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Water firm says 700 sewage spills stopped in a year."

Yet more complete and utter nonsense from South West Water. @CurtisLancaster

In 2022 SWW told govt that by 2025 it would reduce sewage dumping to an average of 20 times per year and reduce the impact on local rivers by 33%.

During 2022 SWW spent 290,271 hours on 37,649 occasions dumping sewage into the environment.

During 2024 544,439 hours on 56,172 occasions.

Nothing but the usual bullish*t then.

https://t.co/0IMBv3PH6X