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Raw sewage dumped into England’s rivers 375,000 times last year – BBC News
Raw sewage was discharged into rivers in England nearly 375,000 times by water companies last year, according to the Environment Agency.
The UK government has said that this is unacceptable and is promising a 40% reduction by 2040.
‘Citizen scientists’ have been taking samples from waterways near their homes to find out just how much sewage and other chemicals are in the water.
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The US said it has hit “dozens” of Iranian military targets in overnight attacks, in response to Iran hitting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The military said it struck “air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats”, using aircraft, ships, and drones – including “one-way attack sea drones for the first time”.
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade,” the US military said. “Iran does not control it”.
In response, Iran said it targeted US bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait and also radar systems in Oman.
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President Donald Trump has said the US is reinstating a naval blockade of Iranian ports and will impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz following days of escalating strikes between the two countries.
He said this would stop “Iran’s ships or customers” from entering or leaving the key oil shipping route, but “all other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait”.
Iran’s foreign minister later said whoever provides safe passage “should be compensated for this service”, but Iran would remain the strait’s “GUARDIAN” – using Trump’s word.
Tehran and Washington clashed over the strait’s control after exchanging strikes in the region overnight and on Monday.
The US said it carried out strikes against military targets in Iran, targeting air defence systems, coastal radars, and missile and drone sites. Iran said it responded by striking US military bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, and radars in Oman.
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Wildfires of ‘exceptional scale’ have taken force in Paris, as neighbouring Spain still tackles flames across the country following its own devastating fires.
Now the UK is also experiencing wildfires in England and Wales, as its third heatwave of the year is set to intensify again this week.
Here’s what we know so far about the extent of wildfires in Europe and the UK, and how heatwaves are impacting them.
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Explosions have been heard near two Iranian port cities, Bandar Abbas and Bushehr, state media has reported.
It comes after another night of strikes between the US and Iran, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps saying it hit two UAE tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and targeted US facilities in Jordan and Bahrain.
The UAE called the attack “brazen”, adding that an Indian crew member was killed and eight others were injured.
Meanwhile, the US military says it completed strikes on targets aimed at degrading “Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping” – Iranian state media reports three people were killed.
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The US military said it was carrying out a new wave of strikes on targets in Iran. It said the aim of the attacks was to degrade Iran’s ability to attack shipping in the strait of Hormuz. It came ass the US Navy resumed its blockade of Iran’s ports.
Iran said that control of the strait of Hormuz was required for its national security and it will exercise sovereignty over the key shipping lane, whatever the cost.
President Trump announced that he was scrapping a plan he had announced a day earlier, for placing a 20% toll or tariff on all cargos passing through the strait of Hormuz.
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@MrMarkhall1
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
These fines don't seem to working, the water companies don't seem to worried about them.
@ezeztztz
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
These water companies are running rings around the watchdogs/authorities and making absolute fools of them by deliberately falsifying reports,and then getting rewarded for their so called good behaviour through their reports which have all been falsified/manipulated to hide their disgusting practises in deliberately releasing sewage into lakes and rivers even at the height of summer,this should be a much bigger story and the public need to act on this because the useless toothless and incompetant authorities and governments sure won't.
@tuffgonggb3340
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
5th COLUMNN
@bubblegum7489
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
3rd world country activities.
@markenglish9841
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
cancel your direct debits to water companies
@cathybritt6312
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Its about time they brought their systems up to date. And used profits the to do it. Pointless fining the companies. They just pass it on to the customer
@ibelieveyou2066
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Good to see the same practices going on. What is it, the 90s, or the 80s? They(the water companies) just say the same nonsense, the toothless EA, always say the same, nothing changes.
@Paul-pz3us
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Make all water back in the public hands nationalises them all again. Should never of been sold off
@nat90957.
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Immigrants are welcome to England, it's the dirtiest, filthiest shithole on the planet 😂
@IBIZABIKE
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
and big bonus for doing it
@Nick-Emery
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
375,000? They clearly don’t have the facilities to clean the soil water… why can’t they build more facilities?
@snookymaguire4570
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
LETS GO BRANDON!!!!!!!!!!!FJB!!!
@zinkyboy6252
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
You can thank the Tories!
@deccyboi4218
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Private water companies, genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Tridhos
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Margaret Thatcher sold off the publicly-owned water and sewage industry in England and Wales for £7.6bn. She vowed it would lead to a new era of investment, improve water quality and help bring down bills, and people fell for the scam.
@portcullis5622
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
This is a national scandal.😡Just as the privatisation in the late 1980s was. Apart from windfall taxes and massive fines being imposed, some of the water company senior managers should now be facing prison sentences.🤬
@traceyolsen308
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Concerning Chichester Harbour, there was a Country File(?) program covering the great decline in Oysters there, they weren't transitioning into females, and it was found that the males were presumably extremely stressed because their insides were full of splinters of glass…presumably being bivalves they were breathing in these splinters from particles breaking off the fibreglass boats in the harbour? Is this a growing problem in other places as well? Is fibreglass going to turn out to be a problem similar to asbestos?
@georgieippolito9924
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
humans destroyed 50% of forests and 60% of animals since 1970. THIS IS DISGUSTING!!!!!! a environment hazard responsible for major algae blooms killing wildlife!!!!!!
@nelvaldo.4850
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
We want our country back we will take back control?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@3chords490
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
How many of the people in this video actually voted Tory in the past and now? The very party that brought in the privatisation policies that have lead to this total shambles. These things happen because the stupid and deluded people of England voted for it to happen. It’s our fault for letting them get away with it for so long. What did we actually expect ? …..That privatised water companies would decide to invest long term with billions into upgrading their worn out infrastructure and take that money out of the precious dividends of shareholders ( most of whom aren’t even British ) ? Wake up people , it was never going to work and you have allowed yourselves to be scammed.
@stephenwalker850
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
£57 billion paid out in dividends to shareholders while the Tory party / orange demand more money from the taxpayers, more Tory / orange crap
@bitsnbobsbobsnbits368
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Ass goblets the lot of them, send them to jail
@stephenwalker850
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
If taxpayers huv to pay for it they might as well own it , more Tory/orange shite
@miketw3068
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
When you leave a woman with limited expertise at the helm. Expect a quick sink 😂🎉
@Valhalla-vk7hf
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Instead of collecting small samples the Citizen Scientists should collect tons of the untreated sewage and dump it round at the houses of those responsible …
@rdwaldsaxe-coburg666
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
1 min its rain water overflow the next its sewage , where are the steam turbines
@user-yn7uf5mh5l
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Am I correct in saying that SWW owns more land in Cornwall than anyone? Sell land not subsidise their assets.
@chazwyman8951
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Water companies waited for Brexit then started releasing raw sewerage. Now they are going to spend billions to mop it up so they can increase the bills to you. All this whilst they have been paying out dividends to themselves and at the same time borrowing money from their friends in the city so they can as individuals can earn interest which is paid by, guess who? Paid by YOU in your increased bill. These are not water companies. They are foreign corporations looting the UK economy.
@billybunter5575
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
we can complain untill the cows come come home but the fact is the sharholders and directors dont give a toss because if it became law to stop pumping waste in to waterways and the sea then those that have earned millions will just leave there jobs and live a comfortable lifystyle i would not be surprised that the directors of these copanys are very rich tories that have no concience.
@MrLewooz
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
What were the promises around public services privatisation?
Better services, more efficiency, cheaper…
The usual con, as we discover today that greedy shareholders made cuts around used water treatments and dropped sewage directly in rivers and sea.
The head news was: Unprecedented apologies about the VOLONTARY pollution made for pure profit. Sorry guys; we keep our jobs, we keep our bonuses, we are just sorry, and by the way the build of the infrastructures needed will be reported on YOUR bill…
Those people should be in court, the shareholders’ dividends ceased, those people should be in jail and the companies nationalized again to become again with better services, more efficient, cheaper… they lied, they polluted for years, and now they show us the finger.
Where were the controls from the state? Did they turn a blind eye on it? Did they knew?
Purely disgusting.
@vickyking3408
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Cut out the middleman just flush the sewage straight into the river and the sea,let people get polio again,its all about profit for PRIVATE water companies isnt it lazy Coffery,I wonder whether you get a back hander a vile uncaring greedy government
@petesmart1983
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Everywere In the UK rivers and seas have failed safety tests, there all full.of sewerage and ecoli etc.
@andrewgamble5332
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
As Parliament said the Environment Agency are toothless.
@grahamebell4593
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Water companies have a mental problem when it comes to their duties . They see only the interests of shareholders and the senior management bonuses . Some 20 years ago the company were found to be flooding my property from the reservoir next to me and they promised to rectify it . When they realised the cost this amounted to a shallow inadequate "Dutch Drain' . The flooding continues but all efforts to retain then failed . Finally with the drought last years their own land dried out causing subsidence and displacement between the huge valves and the pipework and they failed. The subsequent flooding meant that they could no longer deny the flooding problem . It took 20 tons of special ballast a deep trench properly lined to address the problem and expensive restructuring of all the on-sight structures . No effort was made to address then years of damp and cold it was :WE HAVE STOPPED FLOODING YOU " end of story .However in that 20 years . this site has been used to alter the pumping arrangements that previous existed with its adjacent site some half a mile away .
THAT REARRANGEMENT RELEASED A LARGE ACREAGE OF LAND ONN WHICH !))"S OF HOUSES HAVE BEEN BUILT> Non-water profit all challenged to shareholder and management while they failed to honour the original commitment to stop flooding me because of cost and when eventually they had to take action because their own eqipmne was being threatened any thought of compensation for past effects to our living were not even considered .
On3 wonders who these people are that happily destroy our rivers and beaches etc when the money has always been there to pay for the work
When the water companies were privatised I wrote to John Major who I knew when he was a far from capable banker and before the bank had offered to find him a seat in parliament .
I TOLD HIM THEN : YOU ARE NOT SELLING A WATER COMPANY YOU ARE SELLING A PROPERTY COMPANY
There's sufficient non-water assets to ring fence that could be used to compel the company to improve its water related obligation lacks and sewage outlets and still get the money from privatisation .
It was the most oversubscribed privatisation of the lot for obvious reason . Even the man on the street could see that it had been grossly undersold .My experience here proves this. They baulked at the cost of preventing the flooding while pocketing £millions on property development using thisn site which also yields vast non-water income from satellite and radio masts .
@erikoganbare6546
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
The tories just recently voted en mass to allow water companies to continue this practice for the next 15-50 years, enough is enough these companies have had 30+ years to get there act together, they are run to ensure profits for overseas owners, massive directors salaries & dividends to shareholders, when they need to do infrastructure maintenance they go into debt to fund it, time to take these companies back into public ownership on environmental grounds, take back not buy back because they have fleeced us enough already!.
@Jakas-qt6hj
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Isn’t the world a lovely place. Destroy the environment
@sammartin2365
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Companies are ripping off people left right and centre and government are not doing a thing its disgusting.polluting the our waters too
@sammartin2365
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
This isn't fair on people that pay for their water bills.I have heard that they will be a rise on the people that pay for water for the faults that the water companies do.But they pay their people billion each and a pat on back this is an out rage.we didn't cause this water companies did.They should fix this they should not put it on the people for their faults and stop giving the billions out for one til it is fixed.STOP RIPPING OFF PEOPLE
@riveness
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Brexit baby
@jondoe1832
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
I actually really love this and the more we pump out the more it really pi$$es of the French as they eat all those vile sea creatures and we don’t so come on guys let’s get eating more and releasing more turds to the horrid French!! Turds away
@Marc-so2cd
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
If you want it done properly then do it yourself. Government agencies are not to be trusted.
@mariebarr1745
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Therese Coffey should be fined and sacked for allowing this
@porterwake3898
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Meanwhile the English and most Europeans still have this elitist attitude towards Americans.
@keithwhite5657
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Don't forget in all council areas across the United Kingdom there a massive building work for new housing scheme so if the sewage system can't cope now what's this going to look like in 5 to 10 years ? .
In each area of councils governments private landlords councillors politicians your find corruption there joined with each other through organisations corporations and industries they don't care for the environments or the wildlife all they care about is the power the control and the money the greed .
@jimmybrooks463
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. (Luke 13:5)
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. (Psalms 51:1-4)
@sandrafoxley735
January 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
so the government with their stupid net zero which is impossible to attain are not so green after all as clean water IS POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE……………