Thames Water's careless vandalism
4/3/202631 min
The pollution of Britain’s waterways is well known, but the full extent of the carelessness and vandalism of Britain’s biggest water company, Thames Water, is a catalogue of wrongdoing on an industrial scale.
Will Dunn speaks to the MP with the dubious honour of representing the constituency that is worst affected by sewage spills - Liberal Democrat MP, Charlie Maynard.
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The pollution of Britain's waterways is well known, but the full extent of the carelessness, and you could even call it vandalism, of Britain's biggest water company, Thames Water, is a catalog of wrongdoing on an industrial scale. Research shared with The New Statesman shows that five years of new regulations and responsibilities have done nothing to address Thames Water's pollution of bathing waters and delicate ecosystems. It details more than thirty-nine thousand sewage spills, about eight and a half thousand of which were illegal. This is Daily Politics from The New Statesman. I'm Ollie Dugmore. Today, I'm going to hand over to my colleague, Will Dunn, who spoke to the MP with the dubious honor of representing the constituency that is worst affected by these spills, Liberal Democrat MP Charlie Maynard. This episode was recorded before