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Windrush Against Sewage Pollution- using data analysis and investigation to expose the regulatory failure and promote improvement. www,https://t.co/ZaX8vMRjbe

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@WindrushWasp
Windrush WASP
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When Labour was elected, we thought the new government would go with the undeniable evidence about the privatised water scam and end it. Not be steered away from serving the country's best interests by powerful financiers to serve theirs. We were wrong
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@GreenJennyJones
Jenny Jones
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How many times do we all have to repeat this before the Govt sees sense? @ChrisGPackham @HugoSAS @WindrushWasp
@GreenJJNews
GreenJJNews
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Southern water failed (again). "When will the government accept that the water companies are incompetent, badly managed and should be nationalised?" Cunliffe report was deliberately excluded from discussing public ownership @GreenJennyJones
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@Feargal_Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey
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So how can you dump sewage into the environment for 454,155 hours in just one year, and fail to meet your customer satisfaction targets, fail to meet your per capita consumption targets, fail to meet your supply interruption targets, fail to meet your DRINKING WATER QUALITY
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Helena Horton
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Water minister has heaped praise on Severn Trent for its “continued commitment to environmental performance”. Last year ST dumped human waste into the environment 62,085 times https://t.co/MGT22bhcme
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@Feargal_Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey
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One week from today, 18th Nov to be precise will mark the 4th anniversary of what the @EnvAgency at the time called its "largest ever criminal investigation into potential widespread non-compliance by all water and sewerage companies in England". 4 years later not a thing, not a
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nationalworld.com
Ofwat has suggested that Wessex Water must pay £11m over failures to adequately operate and maintain its wastewater network.
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@VictorMellor
Vic Mellor
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I am proud to be doing my part to assist the Thanksgiving basket distribution efforts in Cranston and Woonsocket. This Thanksgiving, we will work together to make sure as few Rhode Islanders as possible go without a turkey dinner.
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@Feargal_Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey
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"Volunteers cleaning up the pellets at Camber Sands have described it as "the worst single incident" they have encountered." I'm going to be down on the south coast this weekend. Perhaps the minister responsible Emma Hardy might like to join me at Camber Sands on Saturday
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bbc.co.uk
Millions of pellets, thought to have come from the Eastbourne treatment works, have been washed up at Camber Sands.
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@Feargal_Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey
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ICYMI!!!! Holder of the largest corporate illegal sewage dumping fine ever issued, at £90m, @SouthernWater are at it again. First the deny it, then when the game is finally up they admit to it, SW have illegally dumped million of biobeads into the English Channel and on to
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theguardian.com
Resulting pollution on Camber Sands beach poses threat to wildlife including dolphins and seals
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@WindrushWasp
Windrush WASP
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Horrible fish kill going on in lovely pond near Wallingford, Oxfordshire. Sewer repair work @thameswater close but no clear link so far. Told @EnvAgency says water quality OK - dying fish disagree. Respect to operational staff working nearby. WASP investigating.
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@premnsikka
Prem Sikka
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England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year. Country surrounded by water has water shortages. 2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks. Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours. No new reservoirs. Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend. https://t.co/oEmpXQhcBj
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theguardian.com
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
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@labourlewis
Clive Lewis MP
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This crisis wasn’t just made by the weather. It was manufactured by decades of political cowardice and corporate greed. Privatised water hasn’t just failed. It will be remembered as one of the most criminal acts in Britain’s long history of failed privatisations. Since
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@MattStaniek
MattStaniek
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🚨 OUR LATEST FILM is OUT NOW 🚨 Following a week of sold-out screenings, our latest film Origin — A Journey to Find the Source of Windermere is now live on YouTube. This film exposes the truth about what is happening to England's largest freshwater lake, sets out how we
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@Feargal_Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey
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Coming now.... any second now... what you've being waiting for... hold tight... in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
@MattStaniek
MattStaniek
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🚨 OUR LATEST FILM is OUT NOW 🚨 Following a week of sold-out screenings, our latest film Origin — A Journey to Find the Source of Windermere is now live on YouTube. This film exposes the truth about what is happening to England's largest freshwater lake, sets out how we
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@Feargal_Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey
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"Footage of our dying lake in the new film from the Save Windermere campaign - by Matt Staniek, Finn Pattinson, Harry Read and Edwin Towler - must be seen to be believed." I've being a big fan of @TGOMagazine for many years. Now I know why. Well done everyone. 👏👏👏
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thegreatoutdoorsmag.com
The footage of our dying lake in the new film from the Save Windermere campaign - by Matt Staniek - must be seen to be believed.
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@Feargal_Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey
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"UK regulator warns 9 water companies over finances." Let's face it as Ofwat's career as a regulator heads towards oblivion it's a pretty shameful end of term report card for those that have sat on the board for 35 years and those secretaries of state who appointed them. You
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ft.com
Ofwat scrutinising privatised utilities amid concerns about financial resilience
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@Feargal_Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey
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So @Ofwat has just published its latest water industry financial resilience report, the industry is still in deep, deep financial trouble in spite of eye watering big bill increases. 9 water companies, that's over half of the industry listed as being in the financial sewage,
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@RiverActionUK
RiverActionUK
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💬"The Aarhus Convention is fundamental to our ability to protect our environment. It is vital the UK shows leadership at this critical moment by making clear these protections will not be undermined." - Emma Dearnaley, River Action's Head of Legal READ MORE ⬇️ #AarhusConvention
@WCL_News
Wildlife and Countryside Link
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📢 40+ NGOs have written to the PM urging him to uphold the Aarhus Convention – the cornerstone of environmental justice The Convention protects your right to: ✅ Access environmental information ✅ Have a say in decisions that affect nature ✅ Seek environmental justice
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@MattStaniek
MattStaniek
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Just been sent this from the shores of Windermere this morning. @EnvAgencyNW are you going to react this time? https://t.co/GwHB1Bh0c3
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@BeckettUnite
Howard Beckett
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Zack Polanski making the case to renationalise water Look at the faces on the other panelists! The game is up & they know it: ‘Privatisation was the experiment & it failed’ ‘Pumping dividends to shareholders while pumping sewage into our waters’ ‘It’s time to take it back!’
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@RiverActionUK
RiverActionUK
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🚨 BREAKING: We’re in court TODAY challenging @Ofwat! @Ofwat promised customers wouldn’t pay twice for infrastructure improvements, but its approach risks customers paying again for failures that should never have happened. Building on the failures exposed by @MattStaniek of
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@ProtectTheWild_
Protect the Wild
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This Planning & Infrastructure bill is a disaster. It lets ministers overrule councils, scraps proper wildlife surveys, and gives developers a free pass to bulldoze nature. It weakens badger protections, ignores animal welfare, and lets companies pay to destroy habitats.
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@premnsikka
Prem Sikka
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Murky Water In a free seminar leading authorities will explain how England's water industry became a mess and how we can chart a better future. Date: 12 Nov 2025 Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Venue: Committee Room 11, Houses of Parliament. Free ticket here: https://t.co/L8Iwp8ooI8
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tickettailor.com
Murky Water – Committee Room 5, Houses of Parliament, Wed 12 Nov 2025 - Join us for a lively debate about what needs to happen to England's privatised water and sewerage industry and how do we get...
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@premnsikka
Prem Sikka
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Ofwat letting England water firms charge twice to tackle sewage, court to hear Companies charged people for sewage disposal, used cash to pay dividends, dumped sewage Now charging again to fund promised investment, not raising capital from shareholders. https://t.co/lk8tUqqXec
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theguardian.com
River Action bringing legal action against water regulator over who should foot bill for firms’ past failures to invest
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