‘Boil water’ warning after confirmed disease cases – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1q1d51w27o
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‘Boil water’ warning after confirmed disease cases – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1q1d51w27o
Posted by AzorAhaiReturned
22 Comments
South Devon
>The water company has urged residents across Brixham, Boohay, Kingswear, Roseland and North East Paignton to boil their tap water.
Probably have to increase bills by 40% to make sure the water doesn’t have diseases in it.
Double whammy.
Share holders of power companies and water companies rubbing their hands at those increased bonuses!
This is disgraceful in this day and age in this country. There needs be an urgent investigation into this, a colossal fine that is not passed onto consumers and jail time for those found responsible of neglect.
Amazing news, are we already living in a third world country or does it need to get worse still?
In my opinion most water companies need to be seized and nationalized, same with the railways.
The thing about that these stories that always astonishes me is just what did we think would happen when the industry was privatised to improve competition, yet so far as the consumer is concerned there is no real competition in supply, hence critical national infrastructure providing a basic human need becomes a purely profit driven enterprise.
Energy companies will be like, “sweet, extra kettle usage”…
Hmmmm we’ve tried privatising it and that didn’t work. Have tried selling it to China or Russia, that might fix it
Hot take: this is an extremely rare incident, British tap is by global standards of very good quality, and it looks like there is a contingency plan going into rapid implementation.
The pitchforks are probably somewhat over the top.
Every day we edge closer towards a Victorian Britain
People talk about buying the water companies back, screw that, this is clearly finable up the fine to Billions and watch them bankrupt themselves.
I am so incredibly sad for your futures.
I brought children into this world.
What a fucking idiot.
Hopefully the water company is fully liable and they are exposed to tens of millions in costs.
Yer, water company privatisation was a great idea.
Thanks Tories! Thumbs up!
Well thank goodness we privatised the water companies so that competition for our custom would drive up quality and drive down prices. I’m sure another private company will swoop in with a cheaper, cleaner service any minute now right? Right guys?
The third-worldification of the UK continues. At least some tory donors got richer
>16 cases of cryptosporidium were confirmed
Crypto is ruining everything
It’s a shocking thing here…but amazing to think we take tap water for granted so much. Most countries in the world everyone avoid tap water because it’s known not to be safe to drink.
Here we flush our toilets with drinkable water
This happened about 10 years ago in the north west, it took weeks to get sorted.
Do people still use the BBC as a reliable source of info? Honestly asking here
This is what happens when successive governments fail to spend the bare minimum on maintaining the water infrastructure for decades, let alone make improvements. This is just the tip of the iceberg, if nothing changed we will see water rationing (not just hosepipe bans) in the next 10-20 years.