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05.03.26 - 09:24
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South East Water fined £22.5m for ′repeated supply failures′ in Kent and Sussex (The Guardian)
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Regulator says failures that hit nearly 300,000 customers made worse by utility's failure to maintain efficient supply systemBusiness live – latest updatesSouth East Water has been fined £22.5m by Ofwat for repeated supply failures in Kent and Sussex between 2020 and 2023 that affected more than 280,000 people.While the root cause of the water shortages was extreme weather, the water regulator for England and Wales found that they were “in part attributable to and/or exacerbated by failures by South East Water itself to develop and maintain an efficient water supply system”. Continue reading......
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04.03.26 - 17:36
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South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak (The Guardian)
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Firm pleads guilty to supplying water unfit for human consumption in relation to 2024 cryptosporidiosis casesA major utility company has admitted supplying water unfit for human consumption after a parasite outbreak left more than 100 people in and around a seaside town sick.South West Water (SWW) pleaded guilty to the criminal offence relating to the cryptosporidiosis outbreak in Brixham, Devon, which affected 2,500 homes. Continue reading......
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04.03.26 - 07:42
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Dirty Business and the failure of privatised water | Letters (The Guardian)
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Removing the profit motive is the only answer, writes Georgina Ferry. Plus letters from Lyn Howard, Tony Chanter and Elizabeth HughesSince the 1989 privatisation of water in England and Wales we have treated water companies as cash machines, our rivers as sewers and our beaches as middens (Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal, 28 February). Water is a monopoly on an essential resource and it once generated all the income necessary to maintain and update the system. Instead, for more than three decades, the profits from our rising bills have gone into the pockets of venture capitalists.This is one of the biggest robberies perpetrated on an unsuspecting population in recent times. We have lost safe access to the rivers and coastal waters for swimming and other recreation. We are losing the abundant wildlife that used to call those waters home. Continue reading......
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28.02.26 - 10:36
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Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal (The Guardian)
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There is no end in sight to the pollution caused by a 'broken' system. Experts say it could even be getting worseSarah Lambert took her usual morning swim for 40 minutes off Exmouth town beach before her volunteer shift helping disabled people get access to the water.A wheelchair user herself, Lambert's regular sea swims twice a week between the lifeboat station and HeyDays restaurant were the perfect form of exercise for her disability. Continue reading......
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24.02.26 - 08:06
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′People yearn for stability′: the Thames Water sewage plant at frontline of its crisis (The Guardian)
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Weighed down by underinvestment and uncertainty, staff at Maple Lodge just want to get on with the jobIt is a grey day in a wet week but one of Thames Water's neglected plants is still coping. Wastewater is being pumped into the vast Maple Lodge sewage treatment centre in Rickmansworth, just off the M25, at a rate of about 3,000 litres a second, within capacity.The site manager points out the first-line screens that catch everything that will not pass through a 5mm filter. A “sheep” – a bundle of wet wipes, sanitary pads, cotton buds, condoms and indigestible bits of sweetcorn – is rotating at one edge. Credit cards and false teeth have been known to end up here. Continue reading......
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23.02.26 - 22:12
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Channel 4′s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry (The Guardian)
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As the drama shows, private firms no longer able to pollute the coast of England of Wales just switched to rivers instead There is a moment in Channel 4's drama Dirty Business when Julie Maughan holds the body of her dead child and lets out an anguished cry. It is as brutal as it is compelling.Her eight-year-old daughter Heather had just died in hospital, two weeks after playing in the sea on the beach at Dawlish Warren in Devon, where she contracted E coli O157, a bug which comes from raw sewage. She became ill with diarrhoea and blood loss. Transferred to Bristol children's hospital, her parents agreed to switch off her life-support machine after she suffered kidney failure and brain damage. Continue reading......
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