Water chiefs blame swimmers for point out the sewage in river . Lol.

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See, if only you'd all mind your own bloody business, stop swimming, canoeing, fishing and in fact being anywhere near a river none of this would have happened.


It just unbelievable to even say that.....

Btw

Mountain' of dumped PPE packs discovered on New Forest land
16th June


Just keep dumping... What ever environment saving we do on the one hand, the other equally matches it.

True net zero strategy.
 
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Funny I was just speaking to my mum today who lives down south.

She said her water company is blaming the hosepipe ban on people for drinking tap water.

These companies have been raking it in for years and dishing it out in dividends, I don't buy any of this "oh noes we needz moar of ur monayz and much more time".
 
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Tom_ed1987 said:
People seem to want 0 sewage spills whilst simultaneously wanting 0 increase in bills to cover the investment now required to achieve it.
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Between 1991 and 2019 £120+billion had been spent by them invested in the networks. All of this was funded by bill payers.

Another £54 billion has been paid in dividends over that period. They also accrued £40+billion of debts, with the interest being over a billion a year, debts they racked up to pay out dividends.

It's a cushy investment, no outlay and only return.
 
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adidan said:
Between 1991 and 2019 £120+billion had been spent by them invested in the networks. All of this was funded by bill payers.

Another £54 billion has been paid in dividends over that period. They also accrued £40+billion of debts, with the interest being over a billion a year, debts they racked up to pay out dividends.

It's a cushy investment, no outlay and only return.
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Have a look at who they pay interest too.
Follow the breadcrumbs of sub companies they contract out some of their services.

The major point they continue to push for households to reduce their usage. But more gets wasted via leaks.
 
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Wow, something utterly terrifying and hilariously awful... (that I just found out)

In 2010 Cameron and co seriously considered privatising the UK's motorways and trunk roads. At the time, some Tory MPs went on record to suggest it could be, "A great success, like the water privatisation of 1989."

Talk about not aging well, eh? Is there *anything* they won't try to sell off?
 
I couldn't be bothered about any of this, until sewage leaks meant the local oyster beds were not to be collected or eaten.

I've never been so angry and have had a couple of tearful nights tbh



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FoxEye said:
Wow, something utterly terrifying and hilariously awful... (that I just found out)

In 2010 Cameron and co seriously considered privatising the UK's motorways and trunk roads. At the time, some Tory MPs went on record to suggest it could be, "A great success, like the water privatisation of 1989."

Talk about not aging well, eh? Is there *anything* they won't try to sell off?
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Nope. And it's why we are in such a state. UK and it's voters only think about short term.


Its why we are in such a mess across so many metrics.

As UK climate warms, water companies are going to be under ever more scrutiny. Ofwat needs to grow some balls and start limiting share holder returns. Some sort of reward. You can pay dividends when you fix your sewage dumping.

There's an easy idea

Dumping sewage is yet another example of why the UK is overpopulated.
 
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413x said:
As UK climate warms, water companies are going to be under ever more scrutiny. Ofwat needs to grow some balls and start limiting share holder returns. Some sort of reward. You can pay dividends when you fix your sewage dumping.

There's an easy idea
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They already do that to water and other private natural monopolies. Totex incentive mechanism.
 
Dis86 said:
Considering water companies have been generating massive profits and paying dividends that money could have been invested.
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Really?
Oh, what a champion idea... Perhaps you could relay this to Ofwat - After all, when we said we desperately needed to invest £16 billion in the network, they're the ones who decided we were only allowed to invest £3 billion.
This may have been due to us not having paid out any dividends for five years, though.
 
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