Stay out of the sea folks! Looks like most of the shit today is being dumped along the south coast from Ramsgate in Kent all the way to Porthhoustock Beach in Cornwall… So no change there.
We really need to adopt the French method of rioting and protesting
Note how all the talk about climate change and the environment is what you, the pleb, has to do.
Turn your heating down, buy a special lightbulb and a bag for life and you’re sorted.
Meanwhile corporations and goverments:
Sewage sounds foreign. we should come up with something exciting and patriotic. Like freedom slurry. Part-solid non-European British exceptionalism pumped into rivers 800 times a day.
Thats 33 times an hour every day, I presume a single “dump” takes at least a minute so an alternative title might be.
“Never ending tide of shit dumped in English waterways”
Privatization was *such* a success. Everything is so much better thanks to the wisdom and dynamism of the free market.
It’s getting more and more embarrassing each day to he British
Well, the government is clearly not going to do anything about it, only thing left is mass non-payment of water bills, they’re not providing the service after all.
I’m sure excessive overpopulation and rampant greed have nothing to do with this
Climate change cannot kill us soon enough. We are determined to pollute the air, land and sea beyond belief. It is so bad that it is difficult to justify us continuing to exist as a species, seeing as we are so determined to poison the planet an wipe out entire ecosystems to live a certain lifestyle.
We should go and collect buckets of this shit and dump it on the doorsteps of the companies doing it, as well as their CEOs houses.
Basically the system can’t cope with the number of people using it. Just like reservoirs which will see us have hose pipe bans after a few days of sunshine. Just like our roads which are wearing out faster than can be maintained.
I’m thinking of claiming a discount from my water company if I go direct as it were.
That’s kinda by design.
The UK mostly uses a combined sewerage system, which means that storm water and waste go down the same pipe to the sewage works.
Because there generally isn’t a sewage works directly downhill, there are pumping stations, often built near rivers, which have a maximum capacity (generally set by the output pipe dimensions). When it rains heavily, they can’t pump everything, so it (usually via a holding tank) overflows / is pumped into a river.
Fixing this involves either building a much bigger pipe and installing bigger pumps so all the flow can be dispatched to the sewage works.
Alternatively, change to a separated system, which means digging up every street, putting in a new sewage only pipe and every property owner having to ensure their drainage and sewage are separated.
Neither is going to be cheap. Riot all you want, but if people don’t want to pay more tax and/or water charges, it isn’t going to happen.
But enough about Tories going swimming, let’s hear some real news
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[Sewage pollution alert map](https://www.sas.org.uk/water-quality/sewage-pollution-alerts/).
Stay out of the sea folks! Looks like most of the shit today is being dumped along the south coast from Ramsgate in Kent all the way to Porthhoustock Beach in Cornwall… So no change there.
We really need to adopt the French method of rioting and protesting
Note how all the talk about climate change and the environment is what you, the pleb, has to do.
Turn your heating down, buy a special lightbulb and a bag for life and you’re sorted.
Meanwhile corporations and goverments:
Sewage sounds foreign. we should come up with something exciting and patriotic. Like freedom slurry. Part-solid non-European British exceptionalism pumped into rivers 800 times a day.
Thats 33 times an hour every day, I presume a single “dump” takes at least a minute so an alternative title might be.
“Never ending tide of shit dumped in English waterways”
Privatization was *such* a success. Everything is so much better thanks to the wisdom and dynamism of the free market.
It’s getting more and more embarrassing each day to he British
Well, the government is clearly not going to do anything about it, only thing left is mass non-payment of water bills, they’re not providing the service after all.
I’m sure excessive overpopulation and rampant greed have nothing to do with this
Climate change cannot kill us soon enough. We are determined to pollute the air, land and sea beyond belief. It is so bad that it is difficult to justify us continuing to exist as a species, seeing as we are so determined to poison the planet an wipe out entire ecosystems to live a certain lifestyle.
We should go and collect buckets of this shit and dump it on the doorsteps of the companies doing it, as well as their CEOs houses.
Basically the system can’t cope with the number of people using it. Just like reservoirs which will see us have hose pipe bans after a few days of sunshine. Just like our roads which are wearing out faster than can be maintained.
I’m thinking of claiming a discount from my water company if I go direct as it were.
That’s kinda by design.
The UK mostly uses a combined sewerage system, which means that storm water and waste go down the same pipe to the sewage works.
Because there generally isn’t a sewage works directly downhill, there are pumping stations, often built near rivers, which have a maximum capacity (generally set by the output pipe dimensions). When it rains heavily, they can’t pump everything, so it (usually via a holding tank) overflows / is pumped into a river.
Fixing this involves either building a much bigger pipe and installing bigger pumps so all the flow can be dispatched to the sewage works.
Alternatively, change to a separated system, which means digging up every street, putting in a new sewage only pipe and every property owner having to ensure their drainage and sewage are separated.
Neither is going to be cheap. Riot all you want, but if people don’t want to pay more tax and/or water charges, it isn’t going to happen.
But enough about Tories going swimming, let’s hear some real news