Thames Water has been trying to gain approval to build a reservoir near Abingdon, Oxfordshire for about 25 years. The reservoir would ensure the security of water supplies for the foreseeable future. Their plans, however, have been thwarted at every stage by nimbyism, and now rent-a-quote Lib-Dem MP Layla Moran has jumped on the 'anti' bandwagon. In turn, Oxfordshire County Council, now under Lib-Dem control, has called for the project to be scrapped.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Here we go. Southern Water spokesperson “ it’s up to you if you go in the sea!” Ffs
Several cases of severe stomach upsets after swimming in Kent.
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Agreed. Southern Water owners previously owned Thames Water and left them with huge debts

Interesting proposal from Water Companies.

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"People need to be 'less squeamish' about drinking water taken from sewage treatment plants, the head of the Environment Agency has said.

Water companies are planning "toilet-to-tap" systems, also known as water recycling, to turn sewage from lavatories into drinking water by treating it.

By 2030, toilet water could be deposited into rivers near treatment plants so it can be collected and processed as drinking water.

Writing in the Sunday Times, Sir James Bevan said the "unpopular" move would help protect the UK's water supply.

Sir James said drinking water reprocessed from sewage is "perfectly safe and healthy, but not something many people fancy".

In 2013, Thames Water announced plans to use recycled toilet waste in London's tap water, adding it hoped to implement a wastewater recycling scheme by 2025.

The advice comes as water supplies are placed under strain due to climate change." (BBC website)

So rather than doing a proper job of having a fully functioning water system , they proposed some half-@r5ed cheap-fix job "which is perfectly safe". Hooray for the share-holders

I disengage, I turn the page.

Is there any worse company, anywhere in the world, than Southern Water?

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It's no surprise therefore, after all their destruction, that the tories new leader will be giving them a big tax hand-out this year.

As John Cleese said shaking his fist 'thank you so much God, thank you so very much'.

Money grabbing lawyers launch lawsuit against Water Companies.

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Like most I am disgusted with the performance of Water companies especially mine Thames Water.

However this lawsuit if it succeeds will not help.

So every customer of the water companies would get a £40 rebate after the lawyers have taken their fees of course.

The companies should be punished but the way to do that is to force them to spend money on the infrastructure not give the rest of us a freebie.

If someone was directly impacted by the sewage I think it reasonable they should be compensated but most us have not been so all that will happen is the water companies will spend even less on infrastructure.

God save us from lawyers.

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