Sewage is Flooding England, and Water Bosses are Laughing All the Way to the Bank
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- Опубликовано: 21 дек 2024
- Sewage pollution has been one of Britain's worst scandals over the past few years. But, how bad is the problem really, and how can we fix it?
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Asking for a friend: what if someone were to weld a plate over the end of a sewage outlet pipe?
I find it unbelievable that these companies can make so much profit, and still justify price increases to fix their poor performance.
I agree, it’s awful
It would require a huge investment to fix the problem which is caused by the significant increase in population. That investment will be coming from us via much higher prices.
@@stumac869 What leads you to believe its only an issue of population increase? How come sewerage discharge has increased thousands of times over since 2016 then, how much did the population increase in just 7 years for it to get that much worse?
Also how many cubic meters of water does your household use annually? As a single occupant I use about 12 a year or 1 a month being less than a quarter the average, my bill is largely just the standing charge. Of course there are also issues around urban planning/construction, agricultural practice ect.
Of course its easy just to say "bwah it's a huge investment, just neeeeed more money thrown at it ok"
Oh and the industry will just continue to develop and manage the infrastructure as it wants with all that money right?
What did you expect from the Tory's?
Unbelievable even more to understand that the govt /crime syndicate are paying them to do it.
Another BREXIT benefit.. deregulation!(for shareholders..£££)
Another great video! Will be thinking about this when I next go for a swim 🏊 It would be nice to live in a country that hadn't decided to privatise what should be a basic human right
Thanks! Yes I completely agree
Ireland 🇮🇪 we protested and kicked them out! Our waterways are clean!
I would say: first: no bonusses and no dividends when a company has to pay fines. Second: make it law that all sewage systems have to apply to a new standard where rain and sewage are separated.
I agree!
Sewage in our bathing areas was a serious problem before privatisation. The sea off Bournemouth and Poole was full of raw excrement at Alum and Branksome Chines. They now have blue flags, (for whatever that is worth)
The Teign estuary is one large, stinking sewer. I have written to Teignbridge MP Anne Morris and received soundbite platitudes. The River Weaver at Nantwich is like Brown Windsor soup, full of sewage. I wrote, complaining, to the MP, Kieran Mullan, who said he was unable to help as I was not a constituant!!! They don't care....
Yes I’m sure the problem was still there before privatisation! Maybe we need a new model altogether that is more akin to social ownership rather than state ownership so that it’s more accountable to the public.
Don't worry they have a plan and we are going to pay for it!
A Torry mp said he was used to swim in shite when he was a young man so get used to it.
I thought the government was encouraging it... Well they can afford to retire to other countries or go on holiday in another country after all the backhanders they get
yes the government is encouraging it with uncapped migration.
might be happy as pigs in sh!t
They are paying for this through your tax ''contribution''...
Statisticians realised that the only way that they could calculate the UK population was by weight of solids from waste water. So dumping vast amounts is a win win for everyone concerned.
PLEASE NOTE!!!!! This is in ENGLAND....... Don't confuse England with the UK.....
In Scotland, there is not this problem as the water companies are still publicly owned.....
Thank the Scottish Government for refusing Westminster's pressure to privatise.
Moral of the story is that privatising public services is not a good idea.
Why do so many people in England keep voting for the tories? It is beyond belief.
Yes I did mention that Scotland’s water systems were publicly owned, apologies if I accidentally said UK instead of England throughout!
@@solarpunkalana yeah, why do English people keep doing this?
Mate they do not keep voting tories they get the tories if they like it or not,the elections are all a scam rigged by polls telling us who is winning so when the outcome is near what the polls said we all go oh must be correct.(2014 referendum)
The only times the tories are not in direct power over the UK is when they become so toxic and their crimes so large that they decide to stick a tory in the labour party as leader and go hide in the shadows for 8 years hoping we all forget what a bunch of criminals they are.
Love this., Keep going Alana - you are doing meaningful work
Thank you so much
If only Jeremy Corbyn was voted in.
With Starmer being a tory in disguise, England looks to be in trouble.
No Starmer has a comprehensive plan to resolve this problem but I guess we will have to wait and see how it is implemented
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No doubt it will involve you spending considerably more than a penny.
This is a profoundly disheartening subject, yet your decision to illuminate it is commendable. I value your commitment to bringing such crucial issues to the forefront of public awareness. It's hard to be optimistic but I hope these companies won't keep getting away with it. On an unrelated note the opening intro at 00:38 with the title rise was pretty slick, nice editing!
Thank you!
Brexit!
A solution. We need to stop mixing clean water with poo. This Destroys both .
Using a different toilet.
My idea can be v low tech eg poo in a biodegradable bag and then feed it to worms.
Or high tech , automated bagging system . Basically a toilet that closes and replaces a biodegradable bag, using a vacuum transportation system to a collection point.
There are many advantages, the worms turn our poo into v good fertiliser, that doesn't leach into the soil like chemical fertiliser .ideally bags should be seaweed based.
Basically we need to do the opposite of what dison did with the vacuum cleaner. Automated self bagging system for the toilet. And we should call it the. Pootin , pronounced Putin , after that c##t.
Flush toilets also aerosol poo all around the bathroom.
Not sure if making it public by giving to the government is their solution. Inefficient , bureaucratic, their own agenda, corrupt. Let’s think of public in the sense of experts and stewards that care the most , and pay them for doing good (and NO MORE bonuses for boing bad!)
Having thought about this issue long and hard and come to the conclusion that it is symbolic of so much that is wrong with England. Corruption , public apathy , lack of planning , lack of unity over basic services , handing over control to foreign investors , denial , pathological hatred of taxation and nationalisation , arrogance , complacency ( “ it will be ok “ ) , self destructive stupidity , naive trust in capitalism to solve everything etc etc . We all need to look at ourselves in the mirror. They say that a people get the Governments they deserve . Well , we got a bunch of idiots for decades who did nothing about this impending crisis. But it’s more than this. Our leaders were afraid of coming to us and saying “ look , if you want clean water then you are going to have to pay for it and we are going to have to do it as a nation “. Instead it was left to foreign hedge fund investors and people who don’t even live here , and that did exactly what oh would expect them to do…..take out as much money as they could and put in as little as they could get away with. It’s not rocket science. We have been ecologically raped by scammers…and we allowed it to happen. Wake up oh England from your slumber and reclaim your nation from these greedy fools. It’s water , railways , health , roads , education etc etc…..you name it , we mess it up.
IN THE 50s we had problems with sewage being released into the sea , legislation was introduced to reduce it ,in the 70s to reduce it , it's worse now than it's ever been , Only way is to Nationalise ALL Utilities, Water/Sewage, Coal, GAS/OIL, Electricity run at 25% profit to cover overhads ,sell excess to the World @ Market Price.
This situation is a metaphor for the political policies practised by the current government. We must insist on proper budgeting and legislation to deal with the profiteers who grift huge dividends without responsibility for long-term planning for essential services.
People need to stop paying all at the same time, and call for compulsory nationalisation, as punishment for extreme greed. We do not need to buy shares back from people that have probably made more than they invested. At the end of the the British people are responsible for allowing this to happen. We the people could stop it all tomorrow.
Yes! the water companies were privatised. The lions share of profits must to shareholders not spent on improved water quality. Its a crime!
Keep flood water and sewage separate. Simple.
Word!
Yeh....UK environment is generally barren and polluted
Wow! I had no idea that Britain would be worse than Florida at polluting waterways! Thanks for sharing this information. We’ll make it better by making YOU pay for it. What a shit show!
Are Scottish waterways better under their publicly run system?
@@wildaboutbirds71 yes 100% our main issues with our waterways is they are letting out too much water through the hydro electric system trying to keep the lights on in England during the winter months,we are starting to see low loch and river levels in the summer months which is not great for their ecologies.
The second one is farmed Salmon in our sea estuaries,this is causing huge spikes in sea lice which are killing all the young smolts coming down the rivers heading for the sea.
It has been happening for the past 40 years 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The only problem is overpopulation. Too many people with too much excrement!
All these extra houses need sewer improvements. I blame the people who produced the sewage
Saves money on a spray tan......
Its a shit job but someone has to do it.😂
In all fairness with a population of around 80 million and growing by a million per annum you'll have to get used to it.
00:28 it's not across the UK. How can you do research and make a video without knowing Scottish Water is public owned?
You didn't listen. She clearly stated (4 min 35 sec) that Scottish Water is publicly owned.
@@williambolton4698 why say 'Britain' or 'the UK' repeatedly then? England isn't the UK
@@davidlittle7182 they cant help it mate poor buggers are brainwashed with the rule Britannia bollocks they get spoon fed by their media.
Actually lassie its not the UK just England
I'm guessing you are upset because you didn't get a divvy?
Too many people which is overwhelming the country's infrastructure.
Sorry, but we are vastly overpopulated with people consuming too much and producing too much waste.
Our population is walking about in plastic clothes eating plastic wrapped food grown with petroleum fertilizer and driving about in cars that have the same petroleum demands.
The privatization is a problem but our whole water supply/sewerage systems are being overwhelmed.
Better management and investment can only delay the time when we have to open our eyes.
We can't keep breeding, consuming, and throwing our shit all over the place.
Private or public companies makes no difference, it's how they manage the sewage treatment that matters. Publicly owned companies are notorious for inefficiency and or being controlled by unions. Private companies operate to benefit shareholders. What is required is a system that imposes financial penalties for such polluting practices.
Mass migration is a major part of this problem. The amount of sewage entering a sewage treatment works is the true way of measuring a population. No lies, no spin, a number of UK towns and cities have found this to be the case, official population figures way below the amount of sewage being processed.
@@sloughone1 You are bang on there. I was an Environmental tech for a chemical company. We fed our waste to the local sewerage works. Massive problems when we had heavy rain. Old Victorian drainage.
It was a microcosm of the whole of our society.
Billions in profits make no sense. I don't buy the 'makes no difference' line at all. It's better in Scotland. It's better or no worse in Wales, and they're not giving away billions to share holders so..... Better.