Richard / Jerry you are right!! It really is not good enough, but then again it is also not entirely un expected either!
The simple fact is that Great Britain (an important member of the EU and seventh largest economy in the world) does not have an organisation that takes responsibility for, or gives protection to, the environment within its borders.
The EA who are supposedly “Guardians of the environment” will do all the testing and then pontificate about what should have happened but ultimately will do what they always do, which essentially will amount to …………………NOTHING!!!!
In this case the polluter is Thames Water, Thames Water are only beholden to their shareholders, so it is their job to produce as much money as is possible with the minimum of investment, they could pollute all day long and their shareholders (and the government) will be as happy as Larry.
What makes this situation worst is that the very people that are responsible for attempting to deal with sewerage services are the ones who take all the water from our rivers………… and they are only interested in keeping their shareholders in funds!
Please don’t think I am some anti capitalist wax haired sandal wearer, to be fair I am not even a socialist, in the main I am all for free trade and privatisation, but as far as water is concerned we should not be in a position where these companies have shareholders to answer too, water supply in the UK is a monopoly, you cannot for example go to Scottish water and buy theirs, you can only buy from one supplier in your area.
For that reason alone water should never have been privatised!
The fact is that it has been privatised, worst than that even is the fact that the main directors of these companies are in France, I suspect they don’t give a stuff whether or not we have clean water in either our taps or our rivers!
We are very poorly served, the water companies will do the absolute minimum that legislation allows and there are no checks and controls in place to ensure our rivers have either clean water or a minimum flow level, you would think that this is the job of the EA but they are totally beholden to the government and large companies.
They have not, do not and will not do anything that either the government or big business does not like, you only have to look at their response to the regular un-treated sewage discharges into The Thames from Mogden sewage works to see just what good the EA are (they trott out the same video of a Salmon at Shepperton weir every time and the bloody Salmon has been dead for fifteen years).
What we DO need in this country is an organisation that can stand up for the environment no matter who threatens it, talking about it is no bloody good whatsoever; we need an organisation that makes a difference.
BEFORE ALL OUR RIVERS DRY UP OR WE ARE ALL POISONED!!!
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