"No wonder the environment department sat on these letters for so long, they are highly embarrassing. They prove successive conservative ministers have buried their heads in the sand while Britain’s coastlines have been polluted with foul sewage."
Tim Farron,
LibDem.
The revelations about hidden letters between the U.K. government and water companies does embarass the government, but the water companies seem to come off even worse.The main argument from the water companies seems to be that they haven't stopped dumping sewage because the government haven't changed the law to force them to stop dumping sewage. Just stop dumping sewage. The whole thing stinks.
In fairness to the water companies, while essentially correct, the above post has oversimplified the issue. The water companies do make some valid points about how government legislation has failed them. Read the article at the top.
It seems that both the government AND the water companies have been completely negligent about the sewage problem. It's the rest of us that have to live with the results floating out in our rivers and the sea.
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Andy