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Post by Red Rackham on Oct 16, 2024 0:15:18 GMT
I don't mind telling you, it's a tad moist here at Rackham Towers. When I say moist, I mean wet, very very wet. This is serious rain and it's been pouring down for some time, but this is not a weather thread. Rain should be seen as a blessing, but alas since 1989 privatised water companies havent built a single reservoir to catch that rain.
Since water privatisation the UK population has increased by c7 million so it would be reasonable to assume, would it not, that water reservoir capacity had increased inline with population growth, Ha. since 1989 water consumers have continued to pay foreign shareholders £millions in dividends every year as water bills go up every year, our water bill has gone up 150% in ten years.
Could a nationalised water industry perform any worse?
(Carsington was the last reservoir built in England, planed and under way prior to privatisation)
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Post by Pacifico on Oct 16, 2024 7:12:37 GMT
Thames Water have been trying for over 30 years to build a new reservoir - planning regulations (and campaigns by local people) keep stopping them.
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Post by ProVeritas on Oct 16, 2024 7:36:06 GMT
Thames Water have been trying for over 30 years to build a new reservoir - planning regulations (and campaigns by local people) keep stopping them. By buying hotels and gold courses? All The Best |
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Post by Pacifico on Oct 16, 2024 7:42:03 GMT
I have absolutely no idea what that has to do with what I wrote...
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Post by jaydee on Oct 16, 2024 10:06:02 GMT
I don't mind telling you, it's a tad moist here at Rackham Towers. When I say moist, I mean wet, very very wet. This is serious rain and it's been pouring down for some time, but this is not a weather thread. Rain should be seen as a blessing, but alas since 1989 privatised water companies havent built a single reservoir to catch that rain. Since water privatisation the UK population has increased by c7 million so it would be reasonable to assume, would it not, that water reservoir capacity had increased inline with population growth, Ha. since 1989 water consumers have continued to pay foreign shareholders £millions in dividends every year as water bills go up every year, our water bill has gone up 150% in ten years. Could a nationalised water industry perform any worse? (Carsington was the last reservoir built in England, planed and under way prior to privatisation) Good heavens RR. Are you suggesting you want to starve foreign investors. I mean 70% of English water companies are foreign owned. In 2022–2023, shareholders of English water companies received over £1.35 billion in dividends. This was up from £540 million in 2021. Pre-tax profits: In 2022–2023, English water companies made £1.7 billion in pre-tax profits, which is an 82% increase from 2018–2019. Are you one of those campaigners that has suddenly found out that that the English are so stupid by having to pay to drink there own excrement. In short. Enough being enough, and now calling for an end to water privatisation after it was revealed that England’s privatised sewage companies paid out an average of £377 to shareholders for each hour they polluted in 2023. Shareholders received over £1.35 billion in dividends in 2022/23 as their companies released sewage for over 3.5 million hours last year. A new tool shows how each water company has performed, including exposing Severn Trent and United Utilities as the worst offenders, paying out £972 and £692 to their owners per hour of pollution. |
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Post by Pacifico on Oct 16, 2024 10:38:52 GMT
Well look on the brightside, it could be worse - we might have Scottish Water..
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Post by jaydee on Oct 16, 2024 11:02:53 GMT
Well look on the brightside, it could be worse - we might have Scottish Water.. Your photograph is sewage being dumped in Blackpool. And the majority of raw sewage dumping in Scotland is legal. And it is not RAW. It is just more scaremongering. Recent scaremongering headlines in newspapers claim - misleadingly - that Scotland has an issue with “raw sewage being dumped in rivers”. There is only one problem - it is not ‘raw sewage’ and it is not being ‘dumped’ - it is almost entirely rainwater that is deliberately led back into the rivers to avoid flooding. Less than 1% is contaminated with toilet water - what most people think of when they hear the phrase ‘raw sewage. But that is for clowns to swallow. And indeed if you had Scottish water. You would be on the bright side. By the way. You would struggle to find 3500 hidden secret devastating shit dumping points between Skye and the Pentland Skerries. But heh why let facts get in the road. www.believeinscotland.org/media-watch-scotland-does-not-have-a-problem-with-raw-sewage-being-dumped-in-rivers |
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Post by Dan Dare on Oct 16, 2024 11:23:58 GMT
Your photograph is sewage being dumped in Blackpool. And the majority of raw sewage dumping in Scotland is legal. And it is not RAW. It is just more scaremongering. Recent scaremongering headlines in newspapers claim - misleadingly - that Scotland has an issue with “raw sewage being dumped in rivers”. There is only one problem - it is not ‘raw sewage’ and it is not being ‘dumped’ - it is almost entirely rainwater that is deliberately led back into the rivers to avoid flooding. Less than 1% is contaminated with toilet water - what most people think of when they hear the phrase ‘raw sewage. But that is for clowns to swallow. And indeed if you had Scottish water. You would be on the bright side. By the way. You would struggle to find 3500 hidden secret devastating shit dumping points between Skye and the Pentland Skerries. But heh why let facts get in the road. www.believeinscotland.org/media-watch-scotland-does-not-have-a-problem-with-raw-sewage-being-dumped-in-riversNo Kiddin'?
Who are Believe in Scotland?
Believe in Scotland is the national grassroots campaign for Scottish independence. It exists to reach out to undecided votes and to help coordinate, fund and support the needs of the grassroots Yes movement on a local and national level.
Believe in Scotland is effectively a coalition of 142 affiliated grassroots Yes Groups...
Obviously no axes being ground in these here parts...
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Post by jaydee on Oct 16, 2024 12:01:30 GMT
Your photograph is sewage being dumped in Blackpool. And the majority of raw sewage dumping in Scotland is legal. And it is not RAW. It is just more scaremongering. Recent scaremongering headlines in newspapers claim - misleadingly - that Scotland has an issue with “raw sewage being dumped in rivers”. There is only one problem - it is not ‘raw sewage’ and it is not being ‘dumped’ - it is almost entirely rainwater that is deliberately led back into the rivers to avoid flooding. Less than 1% is contaminated with toilet water - what most people think of when they hear the phrase ‘raw sewage. But that is for clowns to swallow. And indeed if you had Scottish water. You would be on the bright side. By the way. You would struggle to find 3500 hidden secret devastating shit dumping points between Skye and the Pentland Skerries. But heh why let facts get in the road. www.believeinscotland.org/media-watch-scotland-does-not-have-a-problem-with-raw-sewage-being-dumped-in-riversNo Kiddin'?
Who are Believe in Scotland?
Believe in Scotland is the national grassroots campaign for Scottish independence. It exists to reach out to undecided votes and to help coordinate, fund and support the needs of the grassroots Yes movement on a local and national level.
Believe in Scotland is effectively a coalition of 142 affiliated grassroots Yes Groups...
Obviously no axes being ground in these here parts...
To put the matter into perspective, Scottish Water official data shows the equivalent of 47,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of waste has been discharged since 2016. Note the word waste. That clowns translate to RAW SEWAGE. As SEPA has declared around 1% of that. Was sewage. When you consider there is more fresh water in Loch Ness than the rest of the UK put together. Take Loch Ness out of the equation, and the same sum applies to Loch Lomond. Take those two out of the equation and the same applies to Loch Katrine, which supplies the City of Glasgow. That in totality is a dog having a piss in Loch Katrine. Amongst a million other recorded dumps all over England. There was 2 billion litres of RAW SEWAGE dumped in the Thames in 2 days. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60046320 |
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Post by jonksy on Oct 16, 2024 16:23:23 GMT
What I can't understand is that mobile phone operators can put their masts up anywhere along with the national grid constructing pylons and now most greenbelt is fair game for houses so why can't they build more reservoirs to inhance our over burdened water distribution..... |
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Post by Bentley on Oct 16, 2024 16:40:21 GMT
There are plans to build a new reservoir near Chatteris in Cambridgeshire.
Work should start in 2029.
We obviously need more .
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Post by Pacifico on Oct 16, 2024 17:58:44 GMT
No Kiddin'?
Who are Believe in Scotland?
Believe in Scotland is the national grassroots campaign for Scottish independence. It exists to reach out to undecided votes and to help coordinate, fund and support the needs of the grassroots Yes movement on a local and national level.
Believe in Scotland is effectively a coalition of 142 affiliated grassroots Yes Groups...
Obviously no axes being ground in these here parts...
To put the matter into perspective, Scottish Water official data shows the equivalent of 47,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of waste has been discharged since 2016. How do they know? - Scotland only monitors about 10% of its outflows, compared with England where it is almost 100%. If you don't look you don't find.... which is very convenient for those that think that 'Believe in Scotland' are an honest impartial source of information. |
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Post by ProVeritas on Oct 16, 2024 19:06:59 GMT
I have absolutely no idea what that has to do with what I wrote... That's because you continually engage in debates you know nothing about. All The Best |
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Post by ProVeritas on Oct 16, 2024 19:10:25 GMT
What I can't understand is that mobile phone operators can put their masts up anywhere along with the national grid constructing pylons and now most greenbelt is fair game for houses so why can't they build more reservoirs to inhance our over burdened water distribution..... Mmmmm, let me think? Could it because a Mobile Mast is absolutely fucking miniscule compared to the size of a reservoir? Could it be because there are hundreds of thousands of sites suitable to put a Mobile Mast on, but very few sites suitable to build a reservoir on? I mean that took me all of 10 seconds to come up with - you should catch-up about Christmas. All The Best |
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Post by jonksy on Oct 16, 2024 20:31:14 GMT
What I can't understand is that mobile phone operators can put their masts up anywhere along with the national grid constructing pylons and now most greenbelt is fair game for houses so why can't they build more reservoirs to inhance our over burdened water distribution..... Mmmmm, let me think? Could it because a Mobile Mast is absolutely fucking miniscule compared to the size of a reservoir? Could it be because there are hundreds of thousands of sites suitable to put a Mobile Mast on, but very few sites suitable to build a reservoir on? I mean that took me all of 10 seconds to come up with - you should catch-up about Christmas. All The Best And how many acres does a 600 house housing estate take up FFS.. And some reservoirs are underground...
See inside stunning underground reservoir in Lincoln
Huge underground reservoir drained for 'deep clean'
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