A Green and Pleasant Land, Girded by a Septic Sea?

Hot weather: some UK folk may be thinking of swimming or surfing in the surrounding seas. Others may be hoping to dine out on local oysters, whelks etc. There's apparently nothing doing for either group. The sea is barred at many popular holiday beaches around the country. Native grown oysters and whelks have to stay where they are. It's all down to the UK's privatised Water Companies, who continue to pump raw sewage into 'our' seas. When challenged about this practice, they boast of the money they are spending on 'new' infrastructure or moan about a pesky broken pipe that needs fixing (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/18/no-swimming-no-surfing-how-a-summer-of-sewage-is-ruining-the-british-seaside-day-out). The situation is ridiculous. The UK Water Companies (often foreign 'owned') continue their prime activity, which is to pump profits to their shareholders and CEO's. Some have been recently shamed into spending a bit of money on replacing their Victorian systems. These Water Companies, however, needed to start major overhauls 20-30 years ago. Things are getting more urgent with climate change. Derisory fines for illegal pumping are sometimes simply passed on by Water Companies to the customer. It's a monopoly. The customer has no choice but to pay up. Is this one of the fabled 'Brexit benefits'?