Robert Lindsay For 30 years the regulator has had the power to fine water companies up 10% of their annual turnover. Guess how many times they've done that?

theriverstrust We don't welcome it - we see it for what it is, an attempt to pacify and buy off more NGOs and con the public with recycled promises that fundamentally keep pollution profitable.

Yes the Secretary of State for the Environment has a river of filth right in her own backyard. Big thanks to Eamonn O'Nolan 💙 for the E. coli testing and Saskia Rowlands The Mirror for the coverage.

"UK’s new wild swimming spots fed by waterways in which sewage was dumped 457 times last year". Oh dear. Did no one bother to check? Well that's Defra UK for you. inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Linton beck flowing in to the river wharfe, in 50 years I've never seen it flow bright green. No idea what's caused it but any of the little fish have all gone. Natural? No idea, in connection with pollution? Again no idea. Certainly not going to guess. #freshwater #rivers

Thanks to decades of underinvestment, mismanagement and failed environmental stewardship, sewage is routinely flowing in colossal volumes into our precious rivers and seas 💩 theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Only during "heavy rain"? Funny that last year most of the country was in a drought and yet water companies still managed to spend 2,291,055 hours dumping sewage into the environment. Ho hum.

"The assessment found that the pumping station was spilling in dry weather in breach of its permit." Yea but what are you going to do about it. The Environment Agency demonstrating yet once again that they are incapable of regulating the water industry. nwemail.co.uk/news/23464061.…

Good old United Utilities strikes again. The largest dumper of sewage in England in 2022, 2021 and 2020, in fact that's all 3 years we have data for but now you can't even plant a tree without the ground been made toxic with their activities. theguardian.com/environment/20…

The propaganda. The reality.

Good luck to Jim McMahon OBE MP - we must turn the tide on sewage dumping in our precious rivers. Excuses about Victorian infrastructure are wearing thin in the fifth decade of privatisation. It’s time to fully fund the Environment Agency and restore the principle of the polluter must pay.

Whitstable Harbour this morning. Think that's just murky water? Wait until the camera pans round. Care to explain, Southern Water? 📽️ - Hywel Morgan (He/Him)

Sewage works continue to operate illegally due to conscious commercial decisions at the top pf the water industry. No one even remotely near the top has ever been prosecuted. Illegal pollution remains profitable. The i Paper The Guardian Financial Times BBC News (UK) Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 RiverActionUK

"What’s the difference between fly-tippers and water companies? Answer: nothing." Not completely true. Fly-tippers go to jail. Water company shareholders, board members and executives don't, they just make even more money than they did last week. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Here's Conservative MP Helen Whately MP telling the BBC Question Time audience that it will take 25 years to stop sewage. Less than a month ago they voted down legislation that would have set a legally binding date of 2031. Laughable.

The latest Water Industry scam - create a crisis, make the billpayer fund the fix and skim off the profits. PR stunt goes off the rails as the companies are rumbled. Feargal Sharkey Surfers Against Sewage BBC News (UK) BBC Radio 4 Jenny Jones bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

"The nerve of these people charing us for their failure." Me in today's Mail+

Greedy water companies stole the money they should have invested to protect the environment from pollution. They now want you to pay it back.

"Revealed: The hidden sewage spills damaging our national parks and beauty spots." So when govt told you the other day that 100% of sewage dumping locations were now monitored guess what? It was a lie. inews.co.uk/news/sewage-sp…