Renationalise water.

[trummy]

Today news outlets are reporting that water companies have failed to monitor the amount of sewage being discharged into the sea in popular resort towns.
Petition starter Ed believes that the “water industry is no longer fit for purpose.” He has started a petition calling on the Government to renationalise water.
Will you add your name today to protect beaches across the UK?

Renationalise the Water Industry

103,857 have signed Ed Acteson’s petition. Let’s get to 150,000!

 

[Bjorn Toulouse]

People can. In Scotland we had an unofficial referendum back in the 90s carried out by the regional councils where 95% of the people were against it. OK it spelled the end of the regional councils but at least water is still in public ownership.

 

[Laner]

They haven’t failed to monitor, they know exactly how much they are discharging on the monitored outfalls, and they know how many unmonitored outfalls they have.

The issue is that the companies get to mark their own homework and if/when and what to report. Pollution incidents are scored on a 5 - 1 scorecard by the inhouse waste water teams, with 1 being the most serious. How many 1’s do you think they report???

 

[Clint]

None! It's all number 2s!

 

[Larse]

The only problem is renationalising is expensive. And with so many crocodiles around the ship of state, I suspect this one is not close enough to the boat.