5 children ill after playing in the Thames; an unwell Kayaker; a rower who couldn't sit some of his GCSEs due to E coli. Meanwhile, publicly owned Eau de Paris has opened up the Seine for swimmers. Enough is enough. End the disaster of privatised water now. Well done

England's water industry and govt put put inflated numbers about the cost of nationalisation. I asked the Minister to explain the social cost of leaving water in private ownership. It is likely to be over £1 trillion by 2050. Question was notified in advance. Watch his reply.

"Southern Water under fire for falsely reporting 100-hour sewage release at Tankerton, near Whitstable." @SouthernWater claim that 100 hour sewage dumping of Tankerton beach as an IT glitch. Yea, right, how many times have we heard that one? https://t.co/V9iaEvbft4

These are the people who blocked the swift brick amendment last night. 102 Labour Peers thanks to the rather extreme 3 line whip which just goes to show how much #Labour do NOT want to help nature let alone swifts. Normally a 3 line whip is used for fairly extreme amendments.

'Almost as if these people are blithering idiots.' A Reform-led council says it's unable to put up Christmas lights because the England flags on the lamp posts pose 'a safety risk'. James O'Brien and caller Simon can't help but laugh.

That’s me done

As yes the old double the cost of the sewage works trick. Water companies have a terrible and rather regular habit of doing this, cost of Cambridge new sewage works went from £400 million to £700 million and guess who was been asked to pay for it all? Just ask the good people

"Water bills to rise again for millions of households." Yep, just when you thought they's screwed you enough already they're coming back for more and get it..... https://t.co/mPfOCTJXsx

No apology yet I see from @DefraGovUK about wilfully misleading the public with their totally made up, totally facetious, economically illiterate, "We are not looking at nationalisation because it would cost over £100 billion of public money", bullish*t. The People’s Commission

Why isn’t this headline news? The implications are horrifying …

"What’s really in the water at Lake Windermere?." So the @EnvAgency take one sample per week for 4 months at each of Windermere's 4 designated bathing sites and rate them as "Excellent". Citizen scientists took more than a 1,000 samples from the lake over two and a half years

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In case you missed it in one of its last dying breaths before being axed Ofwat has allowed water companies to double, yes double the amount they pay back on their steaming piles of debt from £11,057,000,000 in 2019 - 2024 to £22,047,000,000 in 2025 - 2030. And guess who gets to

So @AnglianWater has been fined £62.8 million for illegally dumping their sewage into the environment. In an act of self-pity CEO Mark Thurston, said: “We understand the need to rebuild trust with customers and that aspects of our performance need to improve to do that." Would

"Water companies have ‘cheated us out of £84 billion’ – Feargal Sharkey." And they have. https://t.co/aBlYYV9CV8

"Serious pollution by water companies rose by 60 per cent last year." Now how's all that banning bonuses thing, all that sending people to jail thing working out for you? What a totally waste of time. Time to put someone serious in charge. https://t.co/j1QqjzrWit

Oh look, a water company trying to fiddle the numbers, surely not! Step forward @unitedutilities

Oh the joys of privatisation, translate that into greed, incompetence and mismanagement.

Holy sh*t…. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Mentioning United Utilities can anyone explain how a company can double its profits in just one year, from £170m to £355m, and yet is still be allowed to increase prices by a whopping 32%? Yet again it's the customers who get played and the regulator @Ofwat sits back and allows