Up to 10,000 hidden sewage pipes could be fuelling fivefold increase in fish deaths
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/10000-hidden-sewage-pipes-fuelling-fivefold-increase-fish-deaths/
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Up to 10,000 hidden sewage pipes could be fuelling fivefold increase in fish deaths
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/10000-hidden-sewage-pipes-fuelling-fivefold-increase-fish-deaths/
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
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This is just vile. We have become a third world country. Is this the limit of our national ambition now?
The pipes haven’t just popped up they have been around ages the issue is the companies taking all the money as profit not investing correctly in upkeep and Improvement and there is no one in any party going to do a thing about these practices across any industry thats what will reduce us to third world
Actively poising the water supply should be a nation security threat but the culprits are benefiting financially. No other way to put this but our western bloc is on the verge of economic collapse.
The Guardian put out that tool a couple of months ago to look up your postcode and see the number of sewage spillages into the waterways around you.
According to that in my area there have been over ***12,000*** recorded instances in just the last 12 months. I see people fishing in the rivers around me all the time, I’m getting to a point where I feel like I should say something to them, it can’t be safe to eat anything they catch…
To think of all the efforts in the 90s and 00s to clean up our waterways, and now we’re right back to square one, can’t even swim in a lot of rivers without serious risk of harm.
Time for Ofwat to act. They need to have the powers to tell themselves companies what to do. No profits until it’s fixed.
There is this nice area in my town that is by the river that I decided to visit the other day since it had been a while since I went there and I could legit smell the difference since last time I went,the smell of sewage was so strong it was absolutely fucking disgusting, had to leave pretty much immediately. Fixing this should be the nation’s top priority but I already know nothing is gonna be done about it, it’s so sad it’s almost funny 😂
Project Fear –
In 2017, the Environment Secretary Michael Gove promised: “Leaving the EU gives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reform agriculture and fisheries.”
That, he said, would allow the UK to reshape the way it cares for its land, its rivers and its seas.
“In short,” Mr Gove pledged, “it means a Green Brexit.”
Hey I’m in the water industry and there’s a few reasons for this.
Chiefly the reasoning is that the water companies are useless.
Secondly though there are things called CSOs (combined sewer overflows), where if it reaches a certain point past capacity it will spill out and the excess will go to a watercourse. The reason these are spilling more is that developments are being approved without sufficient infrastructure being put in first to accommodate the extra strain on the water supply.
You also have so many uncharted sewer systems in this country. We are issued plans that never seem to match up with what the reality is, and we’ll be baffled about lines that should be somewhere that aren’t, and then lines that are that shouldn’t be. It’s really not surprising that there are hidden outlets and nobody has any idea why they’re pumping out foul. I’d imagine most of these are beneath the water surface.
Then there’s infiltration caused by faulty pipework where foul is bleeding into the groundwater.
Beyond that though a major form of river pollution that isn’t talked about is industrial livestock farming. This has a huge effect on the health of the country’s waterways. Just in Wye Valley alone as an example, 2500 tonnes of untreated animal waste is dumped into the river there every day.