Amusing is it not Ernie? Especially when the rant is so wrong on so many levels 🙂
thats simply due to not having shareholders to pay and scottish water is providing a service to the public not profits for shareholders
and of course scottish water has a much wider spread population to serve which is usually an cost increase
Couldn't also be to do with the cheap and easy abundance of water and an easy geography for storing it could it?
I don't think the abundance of water or the geography of Scotland has changed since 2002, and yet water bills in Scotland have apparently fallen in real terms whilst those in England and Wales have gone up.
As predicted, it rained. We can't go in the sea again. 😓
https://twitter.com/feargal_sharkey/status/1413911343422398467?s=21
The red dots are where they're pumping out shite I assume? And the blue dots> What do these outfalls look like? And where's that data from?
I don’t think the abundance of water or the geography of Scotland has changed since 2002, and yet water bills in Scotland have apparently fallen in real terms whilst those in England and Wales have gone up.
Yet the demand increases in E&W and availability constrained as abstraction is reduced to protect the environment. A E&W water has funded a £300m project to protect freshwater pearl mussels by stopping key abstractions. Plenty of other similar projects.
The red dots are where they’re pumping out shite I assume? And the blue dots> What do these outfalls look like? And where’s that data from?
Believe it or not all the water companies pump out shite even Scottish Water, they admit it in the bathing water status documents such as Ayr South
BUt not to the same level of illegality and not to protect profits
I don’t think the abundance of water or the geography of Scotland has changed since 2002, and yet water bills in Scotland have apparently fallen in real terms whilst those in England and Wales have gone up.
No...... But the population of England between 2002 and 2021 has increaced by more than the total population of Scotland which might also impact things more than a little (I CBA figuring how that breaks down within the water authorities).
So if the population of England fell low enough the water companies would be paying the consumers to use water?
A E&W water has funded a £300m project to protect freshwater pearl mussels
From the OP's link :
"The pollution damaged the shellfish industry, as faecal bacteria contaminated its product, making businesses unviable."
Presumably the judge was unimpressed by Southern Water's hard work in protecting the environment when he decided to fine them £90 million.
BUt not to the same level of illegality and not to protect profits
I agree Southern Water was exceptional, there maybe others, but as you infer Scottish Water will also be doing illegal activity to manage budgets and overspend
Regulators in the sector are complicit in the illegal activity, going to court is the exception not the rule, plenty of not looking for things that could be problematic
Oh look - actual facts. some of the the private companies including southern water are NOT reducing pollution
I agree Southern Water was exceptional, there maybe others,
Not news to me, it's a sector issue for the UK
SEPA meanwhile are still picking up the pieces from the hack. https://futurescot.com/caught-in-the-dark-web/
https://regulatoryapproach.sepa.org.uk/cyber-attack-service-status/
Before SW Water got fined £1m for dumping in the sea you regularly got the splatters in Croyde and although possibly coincidental one local gifted athlete who spent much time in the waves now has Parkinson's.