They have a point. Every time a politician opens their mouth out pours untreated sewage.
Banning wet wipes is absolutely an important first step.
Failure to stop it? They legislated this problem into being in the first place.
Just wait until the wholesale burning of 2000 EU regulations.
This country is fucked
Banning the wet wipes, fair enough. Asking for a law to force them to reduce overflow spillage, un-fuckin-believable!
Basically what they are saying is that they don’t give a shit and do nothing proactively, especially if it costs them money.
The companies which are dumping sewage into the UK’s waterways and coastal waters are asking for laws to stop them from dumping so much untreated sewage. It’s like some cheesy crime thriller in which the police get messages that say _”Stop me before I kill again.”_
The law they are asking for is to make developers build sustainable urban drainage systems. As more green space is developed for urban development, it results in increased flows of surface run off which enter the network. These sewers are now too outdated to cope with this extra flow.
Rebuilding the network is a slow, disruptive and expensive process (London’s Tideway Tunnel cost £4.3b and will take 9 years to complete). Your water bill would have to increase massively to fund this which it can’t as it’s regulated by Ofwat. Tackling the problem at the source is probably the most sensible option.
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They have a point. Every time a politician opens their mouth out pours untreated sewage.
Banning wet wipes is absolutely an important first step.
Failure to stop it? They legislated this problem into being in the first place.
Just wait until the wholesale burning of 2000 EU regulations.
This country is fucked
Banning the wet wipes, fair enough. Asking for a law to force them to reduce overflow spillage, un-fuckin-believable!
Basically what they are saying is that they don’t give a shit and do nothing proactively, especially if it costs them money.
The companies which are dumping sewage into the UK’s waterways and coastal waters are asking for laws to stop them from dumping so much untreated sewage. It’s like some cheesy crime thriller in which the police get messages that say _”Stop me before I kill again.”_
The law they are asking for is to make developers build sustainable urban drainage systems. As more green space is developed for urban development, it results in increased flows of surface run off which enter the network. These sewers are now too outdated to cope with this extra flow.
Rebuilding the network is a slow, disruptive and expensive process (London’s Tideway Tunnel cost £4.3b and will take 9 years to complete). Your water bill would have to increase massively to fund this which it can’t as it’s regulated by Ofwat. Tackling the problem at the source is probably the most sensible option.