Dirty Business- The Water Companies are profiteering lying bastards

I can't watch it as I already have high blood pressure 😫 I've heard enough in the media to know what’s happening is fucking criminal..but they all get their big fat bonuses. People should dump a truck load of sewage outside the houses of the execs! Greedy, corrupt bastards, the lot of them.

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It's not just the privatised companies that are bad. Welsh Water ( not for profit) is bad too. I'd like to know where my money goes if not to shareholders, it's certainly not on maintenance. They have a record of discharging sewage into rivers as well.

Sadly even if the water companies were taken into public ownership. The Tories or Reform will get in at some point and sell them off again. It won't be in their manifesto as they'll know how unpopular it is, but they'll do it anyway.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/757426

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/757426

Privatisation. It's all about the shareholders. So depressing.

Totally appalling, I'd make every single one of them who lied drink a glass of it.

I was in the area not very long after that poor child died as I was staying with family who live there.

I remember there were quite a few people saying that they'd heard she'd possibly developed e-coli from eating at a picnic table that had bird poo on it. Looking back I wonder if they water company tried to start that rumour. Certainly wouldn't put it past them.

It is and yet water bills are so incredibly high !.
I don't know what the answer is but they need looking at urgenrly

Another thing that should've never been privataised .
Corrupt to the core.

Got my new water bill today....almost fainted. Will need to get a water meter.

And so it continues this site has current live sewage leaks https://top-of-the-poops.org/now

One brave lady trying to fight back - do support her by watching the film made about her fight against SWW
www.jointhewater.com/

We should all be marching in the street about this. And lots of people belong in jail. Makes my blood boil.

It’s horrific. I live by the sea & southern water pump sewage in front of us into the water, we have signs by the beach that tell us the water quality, it’s completely awful how they are getting away with it! My village is a tourist town, many people in summer season will swim without thinking to check the boards (I don’t trust them anyway, the app ‘Surfers against Sewage‘ is more accurate). The stats on that app are shocking.
I just received my bi-annual Southern Water bill, it’s almost doubled. What am I paying for? I can’t believe there isn’t more people listening & more action happening!

I think you had too many words in your sentence: "those fat cat execs who profiteer should hang" would be more appropriate.

They should absolutely be charged with the death of that little girl. Absolutely fucking disgusting.

A lot of staff in the Environment Agency and other regulatory bodies did not and still do not agree with this.
We knew that this was a likely outcome but it was getting in the way of business and many of us were told to wind our necks in.

Those that work in regulation have had their hands tied by successive governments and policies when most staff want to throw the whole rule book at the water companies.
Hopefully the outputs of the Cunliff review will shake up the what and the how. The when is up to government

I hope it spurs a bit more action than the PO scandal did.

Hundreds of the Postmasters haven’t been properly compensated yet, and compensation isn’t anywhere near what most of them lost.

Nobody from the PO has been held to account. Paula Vennels (and others on the board) has been allowed to retire and not return any of the bonuses she made during the period.

Fujitsu made lots of promises to contribute but, to date, aren’t even making provisions in their accounts for money they think they’ll have to pay out (which suggests, to me, that they think they’ll get away without paying anything), AND are still being awarded Govt contracts!

So what’s really changed? God forbid the water companies are put under that level of redress 🙄

Isn't there some kind of campaign where people are refusing to pay a particular element of their water bills? On the basis that we're not receiving the service being billed for. We should all join in, it might make them take action if we hit them in the profits.

Particularly bitter this morning as I’ve just got a bill for £470 from Thames bastard water. Fuckers

Even if Labour manage to get them back into public ownership at some point there will be a change of government who will them just sell them off again.

Selling state assets to their mates is the reason the Tories and Reform exist. To enrich themselves at the cost of you and me

It's not just that they borrowed money. They borrowed money from the companies that owned the water companies as an accounting trick to ensure the water companies cannot be brought back into public ownership without a massive cost.

So company A owns water company W. A loans W billions. W is then obliged to pay A back even if it's taken back into public ownership. So if it's taken back into public ownership the taxpayers then owe that money

Immoral