‘There’s something wrong with the water’: Bacteria in UK river 50 times higher than safe swimming levels

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1. > The shocking findings come from six months of testing done by Burton Phoenix Canoe Club upstream and downstream of a Combined Sewage Overflow in Staffordshire from February to August in 2024, with the analysis funded by Paddle UK.

   Why would anyone be shocked by this? This country constantly dumps human shit into our rivers.

2. Think we need to keep an eye on foreign TV channels.
   Should be fairly easy these days, with a VPN.

   If we start seeing clean water appeal adverts, then we need to worry.

   Your donation of 3 Dinar a month could help John, and millions like him, have access to clean water.

3. It’s water companies dumping sewage, which there is no excuse for

4. I am shocked! Shooketh! Shooketh to the core I tell you!

5. How could the profit driven private water companies allow such a thing happen? Im in complete shock. I hope this doesn’t effect the bonuses of all their board members. No one works as hard as they do

6. They’ve learned their lesson. Let’s give them £3bn.

7. How the fuck are people not in prison for this shit.

8. Why is this a surprise… When you illegally dumping massive amounts of untreated sewage into a river of course the bacteria count is going to increase.

9. this water monitoring bureaucracy was one of the reasons to leave the EU. Those meddling nanny state people!

10. There’s people (I assume people, they could be bots) up and down this thread insisting that it’s the planning system’s fault that our infrastructure is so bad.

    This is a hilariously wrong statement, and relies on the reader mixing together a hodgepodge of neoliberal talking points and not questioning anything.

    They’re saying that the problem isn’t private water companies making billions in profit, it’s the planning system’s fault. This is of course absolute nonsense

11. I wonder if it’s something to do with raw sewage pumped into waterways. It’s killing lake Windermere.

12. Almost like dumping sewage into the rivers is bad? Just shows the competency of our government.

13. Private water companies have been given an inept government that does not create legislation to stop them cutting too many corners for cost saving measures.

    We’ve literally just let this happen, researched an obvious but still terrible result and now we’re going “Oh no, this is bad” and still not absolutely brutalising the water companies in court for it. Just a fucking sham, rich people and their mates fixing shit up. You’d get a worse punishment throwing cans in a river than these companies do for destroying them.

14. This should be a HUGE priority to everyone in parliament. I mean how has it become normal to poison your own rivers? This planet can’t go on like this.

15. When exactly is the breaking point for this?
    We know this is caused by private water companies dumping sewerage.
    We also know they are driven by profit and continue to pay large salaries with eye watering bonuses whilst criminally neglecting their duties.
    When they continue to fail in their duties they are bailed out by tax payer money which we then receive higher bills to cover.
    Really, where is the breaking point at which this can change!?
    What more can we, the little people, actually do about this?

16. I fucking knew it. I’m an aquarist and I haven’t been able to use my tapwater for the last bloody year.

    Every damn time I’ve done it in the last year my fish got sick *immediately* afterwards, across multiple tanks at a rate far too high to be me just suddenly sucking at my job. In some cases the water became clouded with infusoria overnight (small things in the water that eat bacteria, and make the water cloudy when their population spikes). When I cottoned onto what was happening I started drawing water from a nearby set of ponds for my tanks and did not experience this issue any more.

17. R/rejoinEU

    Ah yes, Dysentery!

    Another banger Brexit Benefit. I just love the freedom to swim in feces.
     
    Let’s just admit this was a mistake and rejoin.

18. This isn’t a secret at all , I have boiled my water x3 before drinking it for 10 years. 

19. Tories getting bungs from their mates to keep allowing sewage discharges with impunity for 15 years takes some turning around. Criminal

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