Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
I agree with you.
River Lugg, Herefordshire
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lloyd
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- Herefordshire
I did see the Conservatives blocked Labour's billYou aut to be on the stage ....
These fekers are above the law ...
to cut discharges with Therese Coffey saying "The bill was pointless".
Of course if there was a change of government things might actually happen.
ollie989898
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Water companies far too well connected politically. They aren't daft.
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
That is why the general public need to force change .
Get enough people on side with a loud ,coherent voice and the political
sides would be scared not to take notice.
If JP can get 12k signatures surely one questioning water companies ethics
can easily reach a petition with over 100k .
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Stage a sh!t in at their head offices.
- Location
- Sutton Coldfield
lloyd
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- Herefordshire
The reason Labour,Lib dems and the Greens didn't vote for it
is the Conservatives will just let the water companies carry
on polluting with high discharge rates and difficulty bringing criminal charges against them.
This government is an utter disgrace to agricultural and the enviroment.
Exfarmer
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- Bury St Edmunds
You do have to remember who creates the s**t that the water companies have to dispose of!
not one new building should be allowed until water company certifies that they can dispose of the waste.
we as a society have created a situation where we are trying to treat our waste, butr have diluted it to 99% clean water. Thec system ios completely flooded, literally
Yes the Tories should be doing more to stop these discharges but the Labour party could have done so during their years in power, the EA have the powers to stop it if they want and if those powers are sufficient then they need to make a lot of fuss until they are, it's just lip service a bit like net zero but encouraging flying
lloyd
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- Herefordshire
Yes i agree although some of the water companies have been making
astronomical profits .Have they really spent enough on solutions and new technologies when a cheap alternative was far too easily available?
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
The Conservatives have been in power around 13 years that is long
enough to get a grip of the situation.The EA have to work with the legislation
passed down to them.
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- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
make everyone have a composting crapper in their garden! And to run a composting crapper!
serf
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- warwickshire
Us lot with old septic tanks in the middle of the yard /the size of a house like here are way ahead of the game on this eco sh!t
Dont disagree but labour were in that long and liberals for one term, did either do a thing ? No and if the powers aren't enough then the EA should be making more noise and shaming the government to change them
Timbo
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- Gods County
Tongue in cheek maybe, but sadly the majority of old septic tanks are both undersized for today's living standards and unable to process what is now fed to them, yet still often empty out "somewhere" or through a soakaway thats too small..Us lot with old septic tanks in the middle of the yard /the size of a house like here are way ahead of the game on this eco sh!t
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
We've got 3 air flow systems on this property alone.(I know they're not the same as a composting crapper but planning rules dictate).
The air flow systems seem to take up fairly large areas and are quite expensive to install
so in an urban enviroment where space is limited might not be a very attractive option.
Perhaps purchase taxes on man made products which are likey to enter the system?
The money raised could be spent on more advanced filtration technologies ,upgrading
treatment plants along with more accurate and frequent monitoring of pollutants entering the waterways.
serf
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- warwickshire
Must be lucky here then , this one can walk round in it when it has a good clean out rain water goes in and straight through into an open sediment area ditch dug out occasionally and Peckham spring out the end of that ...
Not done the quality control test on that yet though.....
Exfarmer
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- Bury St Edmunds
Wec uswed to take sewage sludge before we grew veg one day went past the gand at lunch time and they were standing around eating their sarnies. I had a word with them an said there was no way i could be doing that in the middle of all this c**p one said for the first six seeks on the job he had permanent diarrhoea but since then he had no issues
ollie989898
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Used to see ramblers helping themselves to the tomatoes growing on the cake heaps during summer. Of course, being nicely dark in colour it always heated up nicely in the sun and must have been an open-air grow bag for tomatoes. I never did have the heart to stop and tell them what they were growing in. I never found the smell that bothersome, seemed to smell mostly of washing powder to me.
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