The saga of deliberate under-investment by England's privatised water companies continues to amaze. Thames Water has 106 treatment works, where waste water is supposed to be stored and treated, before being released into the environment. Untreated sewage is only supposed to be released into rivers and the surrounding sea, under very exceptional circumstances triggered by heavy rainfall. Climate change is, of course, making such flooding events much more likely. This will mean that water treatment works need increased capacity. Thames Water's investment plans for 2020-2025 will, however, only upgrade 15 of the 83 treatment works along the Upper Thames (
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/11/thames-water-criticised-lack-investment-sewage-treatment-works).
The Oxford Rivers Improvement Campaign, judge Thames Water's investment plans as totally inadequate. It's inevitable that increasing amounts of raw sewage will be discharged into the Thames. Thames Water's shareholders will, however, take even bigger slices of the profits from this money-raking racket.
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