Death of #Heather #Preen: how 8 y/o lost her life amid #sewage crisis
When Julie Maughan was invited to help with #TV factual #drama focusing on #illegal dumping of #RawSewage by #water companies, she had to think hard.
In 1999, Maughan’s 8 y/o daughter, Heather Preen, had contracted the pathogen E coli O157 on a #Devon #beach and died within a fortnight.
Maughan’s marriage hadn’t survived the grief. She separated from Heather’s father, Mark Preen who later took his own life ...
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Supreme Court Takes a BIG SH*T on You...Literally!
#StatusCoupNews reporting with #FoodAndWaterWatch discussing the #SCOTUS decision to allow #RawSewage in our #DrinkingWater.
"The US supreme court has weakened rules on the discharge of raw sewage into water supplies in a 5-4 ruling that undermines the 1972 Clean Water Act...
"In a 5-4 ruling written by Justice Samuel Alito, the court blocked the EPA from issuing permits that make a permittee responsible for surface water quality, or 'end result' permits – a new term coined by the court.
"The case drew the attention of powerful business groups including the National Mining Association and US Chamber of Commerce...
"'The city is wrong,' according to Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who wrote the dissenting opinion, which was joined by the three Democratic justices, Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson..."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/04/epa-ruling-sewage-water
PDF of SCOTUS opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-753_f2bh.pdf
Strum those harp strings again!
Another #flashback!
It was around grade 4 in primary school & my class was sent on a #fieldtrip.
Our destination? #LuggagePoint in #Brisbane.
Why? To be introduced to the smell of #rawsewage!
How did we get there? On dinky little #ferries along the #BrisbaneRiver.
There’s nothing like bobbing up & down for an eternity, thinking you’re going to sink & drown at any moment & then be assaulted by the stench of raw sewage.
I saw lots of #vomiting that day!
Sewage dumped illegally in Windermere over 3 years
A water company repeatedly dumped millions of litres of raw #sewage illegally into one of England's most famous lakes over a three-year period, the BBC can reveal.
More than 140 million litres of #waste were pumped into Windermere between 2021 and 2023 at times when it was not permitted, our analysis shows, and United Utilities failed to report most of it.
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