Britain's Water Scandal | Dispatches | Channel 4 Documentaries

I regularly shxt in my local river same as every1 else who shxts in they're toilet at home
Never mind the children wanting to play in the river bollocks to them i need a shxt

And people still think thatcher was great for the country

paused video at 10 mins and read East Anglian Water 'River Water Quality' report. It is glowing and self-congratulatory and full of striving to do better rhetoric. "94% of the 48 coastal bathing water in our region were rated as Excellent or Good in 2022". Yeah right! When you can manipulate the data in cahoots with the Environmental Agency you are not dealing with scientific data and valid ratings. You are dealing in Bullshit! These liars need to be reigned in HARD and NOW. How about no profits for 10 years until the issues are sorted (and capacity to contain and FULLY treat before discharge seems to be number 1. It is NOT rocket science.)

This is the result mass uncontrolled immigration, the infrastructure literally cannot cope with the increase in population.

You can put sanitary towels in the bin not down the toilet

Where did the 90 million go ???

14 years of Tory rule what a history of a way to shit up a country you have so much to be ashamed of its hard to nowhere to start. and you think you have done well. and I'm a Tory voter I feel so very badly let down by so many of you it's hard to nowhere to begin you all have let us down so very badly look at what you have done to our country

Cough ...Thatcher !

Well well well look who owns our uk waterways , uk gas plus others , blackrock and vanguard what a surprise (NOT) , they own practically everything in America now it’s uk no wonder everything is bad , these investments company’s are bad news .

1st thing, try to get rid of all combined sewer systems. public or private that is the first hurdle. At that point you determine is the treatment system large enough. One way is to look at the treatment inflow and discharge during dry periods. Look at the US with the Cheasapeake Bay Plan. The final year of the plan is 2025, then the trainwreck and finger pointing will commence. Then look at Binghamton NY with the plan they have been running for over a decade now for changing their system from a combined system to sewer and stormwater systems. How, well as they resurface roads, they are installing a stormwater system. This is the responsibility of the municipalities here in the US, even if there are public or private sewer systems now trying to treat it. Then look at the train wreck of Scranton PA where they came to an agreement with the US EPA to change the sewer system from combined to separate systems. Then they sold the sewer system to a private company (PA American Water) while they still have to spend money to separate the stormwater system. One thing I have not seen from the UK is separating the sewage and stormwater as an option, why it puts costs on the municipalities, when you can just point fingers at a private company, even if the finger pointing is warranted.

Have to speak to some willing farmers to silagitate the gardens of the management of those companies and then make sure that their bonuses from the time that there was evidence of schittidity

I met some Dutch guys last year and talked about things like this , including water , health services , railways , roads etc etc , even bridges. They just smiled and asked “…..what is with you guys…..you just don’t seem to able to plan and invest in your infrastructure? You are terrible at it ? “. It didn’t make me feel proud to be English. I’ve come to the conclusion , after some long and hard thinking , that there is a deep , cancerous malaise at the heart of English culture. Instead of planning our future infrastructure out logically we just turn everything into a futile political battle - and then we all suffer. Im convinced that our political voting system makes this much worse than we realise. We rarely get cross party agreements on things because we don’t have Proportional representation. PR is not perfect , but at least it creates coalition Governments and forces parties to work together , and then they can plan long term . For example , in Holland , the health service is not seen as a political football to argue about on Question Time. They see it as beyond party politics and plan accordingly. They also recognise that you get what you pay for. Their health service is vastly superior as a result.

We take so much pride in our gardens and homes. We polish our cars , trim our lawns and put in our new kitchens. Meanwhile , we dump poo in our rivers , have roads full of potholes , trains that run late or not at all , and when we get ill we lie on a bed in a corridor or wait months for an operation. They say an Englishman’s home is his castle , and thats true , but the problem is that this country and its infrastructure is also our home. Why are we not taking pride in it ? Do we not realise we have become a laughing stock to many Europeans ? We used to be so far ahead of the curve in the past. What the hell happened? When did this cancer set in?

2 years later and its still happening....

Swimming in Corruption

Money is more important than doing their job properly

Once you have these greedy shareholders they cut corners. This needs proper regulation or taking away from private companies. We are literally swimming in shit.

Why are women flushing sanitary towels.... that's just stupidity.

when he tests the water, he wears gloves, but they only cover his hands. that means his arms have poop on them.

I have a great solution, which will put money in governments pocket. just heavily fine the water companies with a fine at least equal to the top boss. which can be 100x that. it seems very simple, and if they can't pay, then could do a take over and make it public again. Any other time it would be called a scam, but all you have to do is follow your own laws, and could get the company back for free.

What do you expect when we live in a capitalistic world thanks to Britain 😂 Now they're moaning about having to live in their own "shit" 🙄

Woman and girls shouldn’t be flushing pads down the toilet!

Water company bosses get their mega bonuses whilst the population drink feces. No surprises. It has always been this way. It will always be this way. You need to be born rich or you'll have feces water for life.

Pipes Without Permits should be a reality TV show that says everything and solves nothing.

Frankly am rather shocked that any sewage can be dumped into the sea or rivers .
Why is it not treated ?
I live on the coast of South Africa , we have a large stream that flows into the sea .
If there are issues at the treatment works , we have issues .
hence its local name 'the Turdy' .
We have world waveski champs this week .
Locals are involved with getting ' Blue Flag Status .
400 miles up the coast , a chemical factory caught fire , dumped huge amount of toxins into the local river that feeds into the sea .
the company got a big fine and paid for a clean up !
just bizarre to see this in the UK !

great , big fines for the water companies .
90 million should build a plant or 2 surely ?

all the companies saying " we take this matter very serously " and " we are investigating this matter " are all spouting hot air and won't do bugger all about any of it. till they get hit where it hurts them the hardest.

Eventually, water company bosses will be like many of our MP's and will need round the clock protection. The public will only put up with so much.

If Britain had stayed in European market this would not be happening that's for sure, it's unacceptable to see this ,clean your act up great Britain ?

Sewer water and rainwater being mixed is no excuse, that just means Britain is just stupid.
We know already for thousands of years ways of not mixing them and also the dangers of mixing them.
But while the UK and french are already the new ghetto's of Europe, what do you expect?

This is not OK.
To think those that live in city's complain about a farmers cows farting. Animals haven't done this to the environment, humans have.

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In Switzerland in many regards more capitalist than the US and more liberal than the UK, ALL waste water treatment is in the hands of the municipalities. There are NO private companies involved in the business of keeping Switzerland's rivers and lakes pristine and the drinking water clean. Why is this? Because the Swiss are still able to see when there is only one viable solution to a problem and will apply that solution.

The onus is also on us to stop this pollution getting into rivers. Those sanitary towels and wet wipes would never have got into pipes in the first place if people disposed of them properly or (even better) used re-usable or biodegradable products.

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Stop saying "The UK" when what you actually mean is England!

bonuses for what. what a waste of money. Oxford mates lining eachothers pockets again no doubt. Ridiculous they should be stripped of money they have and go to jail for this.

Can legislation be changed to have tighter tolerances? And can they be enforced?

thinks Margaret Thatcher for this all so we dont have this pwoblem in aus its going to cost a lot but the fact that you ues the same pipes for storm an suwige is the pwoblem.

Personally I find it genuinely disgusting that the most basic thing for actually surviving is locked behind a payment scheme but tbh it's not surprising in world that's custom to literally charging the families of dead people to the brink of ruin because how dare anyone die naturally or otherwise that's a couple grand you owe just wait till the day oxygen levels drop you can then officially enjoy buying taxed canned air

I still don't understand how people believe governments that tell them private companies have our best interests at heart and will sacrifice shareholder earnings over doing the right thing. We need to vote Green as they're the only ones that would fight against the private corps.

The bonuses should be used to cover the costs. Maybe then the bosses would stop it happening in the first place.

Used to love swimming in British water at seasides, i definitely wouldnt now. Plus look where Britain/United Kingdom is on world map, very unlikely we will ever have same type of fresh water many places have. Government cuts, lack of funding, cutting corners etc its the usual reasons for why thing's arent being done or done enough

Private liabilities when public liabilities are 9 over 1 why ? Ow fence

Off what's should be charged for speech is not free as free is network and funding is paying phone BILL

And off watt are definitely of on watt going out as they taking in on watt cumming water out of the 2 tanks England AND ONGLAND

Council Tax is a Corporate SCAM.

Issued £250m in fines that were spent on what???? Maybe, if.... they stopped assuring the shareholder dividens before the assuring the upgrades required are done...maybe...then... we might stand a chance. The government are just as currupt as the water company's so we're all buggered really. The uk really has gone to shite....quite LITTERALLY!!!!!!!😢😢😢😢

You know what makes me laugh is all the times companies say they are working on being better and cleaner, Just like governments??

Every pound gone into those employees pockets needs to be seized for negligence and corruption; £250 million for pollution and disease spreading is not what they're paid for.
Seize the funds from these chinless conmen, and do not let the bosses disappear it into assets and other countries.
They're only doing this to climb the ladder, drag them off it.