Forever chemicals surge during Thames Water drought pilot
Toxic “forever chemical” rose to 13 times the legal limit during Thames Water pilots to pump treated sewage into the River Thames. 75m litres of river water a day removed, replaced with treated sewage during drought. Health hazards increase. TW loses 571m litres a day to leaks.
Trickcyclist 🦋🏴🇪🇺4While profits continue this will never stop.
AllOutGreen ♠️2It's like they're a parody water company. They do everything arse backwards. If clean water was a religion, they're the antichrist.
Michael1And Andy Burnham has ditched plans to renationalise it! Seems to be a recurring theme, Labour leader hopefuls promise social and progressive change, policies and reforms. But the moment they are elected into power they U-turn on those policies.
Tony1If you wonder why these toxic chemicals are bad and how they get into our waterways and us, watch "Buried with Michael Sheen", how Monsanto poisoned people in Wales and then denied/covered it up.
Dave Johnson6Water companies didn't maintain & modernize infrastructure. They just kept the money that was intended to be used for that. Didn't replace worn-out pipes & equipment, build reservoirs etc. "Regulators" looked the other way, then got jobs with these companies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ed Granter2Is 571 million litres a day a lot?
On this #PoisonedPlanet we need water companies acting for the public good, not private profit. The case for bringing them back into public control has never been stronger. The #Privatisation disaster has to end #PFAS #PublicHealth
LindyWilliams35Not just publuc control. That is Poser Burnham's terminology. Public ownership please.
Seven of Nine Fan 🌍🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🖖🏼5We must nationalise now! We must stop them paying extortionate bonuses from taxpayers' pockets, whilst poisoning our environment. Instead invest in infrastructure, repairing leaks and reducing bills. Why does the government find that so difficult?
Jockyfox2But @labouruk.bsky.social aren’t listening 👂 🤬 @zackpolanski.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social @paulbernal.bsky.social
Filip2Drinking water should belong to people not to companies.
Progressive4u2Frightening to read and I live in Scotland where water is thankfully in public hands.
Andy Prentice1To be fair to Thames Water 🥸 the point that pfas should be banned and manufacturers should pay clean up costs is valid.
On Thames Water, Zack Polanski is asking what we're all thinking; are conflicts of interest the reason for Andy Burnham's betrayal?
Boiled Like Frogs2The juvenile student politics arent working. Greens on 8% in the polls, and in 3 years the General Election will be a 3 way race for power (that thing the Greens arent interested in), Reform, Tories & Labour! When do the Greens grow up, and make a bid to get elected?
Mia Cheviot2Burnham has betrayed Makerfield and the Country. All those things he said to get into Parliament turned out to be lies. It looks like most real socialists will be voting Green next time.
That's odd, because yesterday you published an article by David Miller, who works for Iranian state media, arguing that @zackpolanski.bsky.social was part of a Jewish Zionist conspiracy to take over the Green Party. Maybe make your mind up on that first because your editorial is very confusing.
Chris Smith1I think it's just lack of bottle frankly.
SantaBJ4I would say, it's entirely possible but more likely it's simply a matter of Burnham's ideological convictions on economics and "good governance". Which, from me, is a polite way to say Burnham is precisely as useless as every PM before him in the past couple of decades and will continue to be so.
Kevin 🏴🇪🇺💚 #VoteGreen2Of course it is! #Burnham is clearly as corrupt as the rest of #Labour.
Andy Burnham in his Makerfield by-election "an overwhelming case for public ownership of Thames Water." Now... nothing.
plasticscouser.bsky.social7Promise everything, deliver nothing is the age old trick of most politicians, so this comes as no great surprise
Mrs V Smegma7Just another neoliberal wanker like weathervane Keith but with more charisma This version of the labour party are not what the UK needs any more than we need the Nasties and Fascist Ltd
simonnew.bsky.social4Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Ailín 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇮🇷 🇨🇺2How do you know when a politician is lying? Their lips are moving.
Lord Jeffrey of Nottingham #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇬🇱2They're all the same. Once their snouts are in the Westminster trough they get selective amnesia.
Colin1Yep, all mouth and trousers.
A trial of Thames Water's scheme to pump river water during drought & replace it with treated sewage water revealed a 13 X increase in levels of internationally-banned, PFOS, in the treated sewage. Rachel & Leana give some context in the interview below: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
