Must Watch: Labour MP Grills Water Bosses Over Sewage Dumps At Committee Hearing 

worth bringing it in house as that at least stops the drain on financing going to shareholders and keeps the focus on the customers...obviously need to get experienced mgt in place for it to be successful

It should be public as well as all other companies that the country needs.

Nationalised.

A basic provision that we all rely on should be provided by the state as a not for profit organisation . That should be the case for gas and electricity , but even if people dont accept that water should be a national asset .

Nationalised

Do something about it it's us the British that have let this happen

Make them drink the water and swim in it. If they’re happy giving it to us, they can take it themselves

​@@James-bc1jk Class system ensures this is not possible without extreme action

After making them swim in it... Saw kids n parents swimming in sea at weekend right where its been dumped...iv warned as many locals as i can n asked them to warn others

I was just thinking with how he was talking it sounded like he wasn't talking about them but for them. He's acti g like their lawyer

thats labour plan, that and fine them till they have to sell it back to us for a quid!

@@shaun906no, it isn’t. It should be, but it isn’t.

​@@shaun906labore are thatcherites and all for privatisation of everything

These committees are pointless. Nobody is ever held accountable, nobody ever gets in real trouble. It's just a way for the government to say they're taking action but nothing will come of it and the people being questioned know that. Just look at the post office scandal. Plenty of words and committees but zero accountability. Those in the wrong still have their money and still have their gold plated pensions.

@@MrDesmondPotyeah Labour is more interested at winning Tory votes….by effectively becoming Tories v2

Well Labour under a Corbyn government would have done just this but alas the public voted Tories and then labour booted out corbyn

For sure !

Make no difference ... same shit in the UK 🇬🇧 😂 worldleader

@@chriswilliams8121 & Labour did state that nationalisation was something they are committed to during their conference.

​@@-BY205 makes a big difference, doom mongers can't see it though 😅

He is a slimy little turd.. fished out of the Thames

Yes exactly. He was planning on word soup but realised the committee wouldnt be able to digest it.

It works as a smoke screen for profiteers.

That is for sure !

Most CEOs from OfWat end up working for the water company but paid off until they get their very lucrative contract. It’s a complete joke and they’re getting away with y.

Water bisses and shareholders but not us.

Like most of them they push papers around. All the ombudsmen type things ...I went to the one for charities because they were doing dangerous things for the volunteers. I'm related to one of the volunteers so their approach was to tell the charity my name possibly endangering my relative. And they said well the charity has said they do everything right on a peice of paper they submitted to us. And I said don't you go and look and check it out? And they said no. We don't do anything like that. We just take their word for it. These people are paid good money to do absolutely nothing and the whole system is like that. The bare minimum they do and the rest is a complete charade a facade.

I agree. 10000000%

@@petyrkowalski9887Scotland never privatised water and have now brought the railways back into public ownership…Corbyn was called out for trying to do the same thing in 2019,now England have woken up that privatisation is not as good as they thought it was…how can privatisation be a good thing when billions have been syphoned from these companies….its the Tories giving our family silver to the greedy twats in the city…

Precisely. All the things we as humans need for a semi-comfortable life: energy, transport, healthcare, and water. These things should NEVER have been privatised.

_So we'd bring pharmacy into nationalisation? Would need greater centralisation, but yeah, that'll work._

The U.K. needs Nationalisation. I would be quite happy the people having politburos and running our affairs. Get these Etonians out of politics and the fat cats.

Labour government can just fine them into oblivion until there pretty much bankrupt. Then the government can but it up at a 1 percent valuation.

I'd call it extortion. A shorter word.

They've been taking envelopes full of cash to allow the infractions to continue

Obv making profits for shareholders

We all heard the same - Uk is finished , bastard corporations and greedy shareholders taking brits as mugs .

Yeah the same stuff that's in the water !

Wow I heard the same thing ! 😢

Brits being ripped off daily on an industrial scale and it’s getting worse not better daily - no way back now .

We will never recover from Thatcher

i love paying my power bills to the french!

@@TheDave1947 It is too late. The establishment has no intention of abandoning it because it has benefitted the rich spectacularly. That is why any alternative no matter how mild ( Corbyn 2017 and 2019) is demonised as extreme and dangerously radical. The gullible, profoundly ill informed UK electorate ( mostly in England) will never learn. Ever.

I think we’ve reached that point already. I can’t think of anything in Britain that is British owned but maybe someone can correct me. The next step is to charge you for something that is currently free e.g. road pricing.

The problem is weak politicians and weak regulation. We've had 34 years since Thatcher so bit lame blaming her still after 34 years. Like blaming who started WW2 in 1974!!! Pointless.

That would be a conflict of interest, and would be frowned upon. And have to be declared.

Riiiiiight. You aren’t keeping up with current affairs in corrupt UK inc.

@@coppershark1973 I’m pretty sure they’d check

You don’t need to have investments to be biased - you merely have to have a few friends who you want to keep sweet.

⁠@@user-vc7kt6yi3w Which doesn’t stop it from happening. Look at Manchester Cities Arab owner and how the council let him buy property and rise the rents to £1800 a month! I wonder which councillor is now sitting on the Manchester City football club board 🤔.

He’s the regulator. Amazing isn’t it!?

Yes he is, to site there with a straight face and throw those numbers out and he has no problem! 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

And this guy is from New Zealand..............tell me how he could be possibly invested in the interests of the UK?

@@LincolnTank-StillOnTheSprue True and look how many energy providers are foreign owned and some are even owned by foreign Governments .

​@@scooby1992And now it looks like the Post Office is being sold to a Czech billionaire.

We got rid of Corbyn, the man who would change it. He happened to be right about Israel too.

@@czarkusa2018 His problem is that although he had a massive following among like minded people , the vast majority of the electorate agree .Some might say ' they want change ' or to be radical , but when push comes to shove they like continuity and to stay in a familiar and safe space .

thames water want to add the cost to our bills in the north

They bought it with debt then dumped that debt on the company, while paying themselves dividends with more debt. It's just wealth extraction at the taxpayers expense.

Totally agree, but no need for the word ‘enough’!! It should just read ‘failed to invest in the last 30 years’! It’s sickening that these private companies can just siphon off public money again!! Nationalise now and repay all our stolen money so it can be invested by a publicly owned, nationalised company to sort out this mess. The public can’t afford to pay twice.

Now ask yourself who are the major shareholders in many of the UK's water companies!!

I read something recently in that they are having a lot of the same problems with the same water companies in many different European countries

@@andrrwprice7281A lot is owned by the french government which means it's publicly owned by the french people and a lot of other countries as well and it should be owned by the British public the trouble is the Tory's are lazy and greedy.

they must drink it!

Every inquiry currently running while electioneering goes on will add more nails to the Tory coffin.

Free market. Tory gold!

Margaret Thatcher that's why she wanted to destroy the country she did knowing she would not have to see what she had done. Evil to the core that woman

Our water is amazing, i was so lucky to be born here

Lying bstrd. You can drink from our rivers and streams in Scotland.

​@@rhu115he wasn't lying, we know Scottish water don't care about leakage because they have so much water naturally. We also know they only monitor 4% of combined sewer overflows compared to 100% in the UK in Wales and we know from the 4% they monitor that they are also dumping sewage. He's obviously using that as a comparison because he was asked about the privatisation model and they are the example of a public model. Still think we should bring all the water companies back in to government control like Scotland do and believe it's a better model. But I don't see how pretending they are perfect benefits Scotland beyond point scoring

@@rhu115No you can’t. In the Highlands maybe, but certainly not in the central belt. The rivers are filthy and packed with litter.

​@@Bucketheadheadwhat ones

Did you honestly think you were drinking rainwater?

Have you tasted tap water in London? It’s awful.

@@clarecrawford9677 exactly! They’re trying to get out of their responsibilities in providing clean, safe water so, if they’re doing their job properly (which they’re not), let them drink the fruits of their labours!

@@maggietaylor9475 London tap water, even when it’s clean, tastes foul.

@@clarecrawford9677 It was horrible even 20 years ago when I lived there, even using one of those filter kettles, I dread to think how much worst its become

You get what you vote for I suppose 😂

​@@dekmackieabsolutely agree , but I didn't vote for the trash that's in government now ,and never will and that includes the parasites known as reform .

I recall that Brexit was stated at the time that it was partly contributable to the delays in supply of the chemicals.

The question has been asked and the answer was that we need to pump the sewage into our watercourses or face having it back up out of our toilets and sinks, because the sewers can’t handle the demand due to not having been invested in and upgraded.

It's to do with blockages and demand, not chemicals. Blockages caused by people and businesses putting 'unflushables' down the toilet and pouring oil and fat down sinks. And demand is obviously a population growth thing where more should have been done to invest and tackle that. The pressure needs to be kept on either nationalise or force change

​@@samuelloification2749True, fatbergs are one of the main causes of blockages.

Brilliant comment !

The powers that be is rotten to the core .

Missed the bit where they were told that water on the table was brought in from Devon, especially for him. As in Erin Brockovitz.

A little drinky-poos. Literally.

Yup, our water is some on the best on the entire globe

Smoke and mirrors. Don't look at us, look at others.

@@ewanwallace7232 Scotland was probably the worst example, he could of chose india as a comparison to england 😂

It is true, you only have to Google it. Probably has something to do with the sheer amount of water in Scotland which would water down the pollution. Population probably has something to do with it as well. Bear in mind that rivers are polluted by farming, businesses, road run off as well as water companies. But it is clear they do not monitor all CSOs but the ones they do pollute when they shouldn't. Even though the river water qualities are better

@samuelloification2749 Run off can't be helped or is at least very difficult to deal with but that happens across the world. What is definitely against the law in Scotland is the deliberate dumping of raw, untreated sewerage. It is not the case in England and if it is, the consequences of doing so are probably so insignificant to the companies that they don't care

That's the way to do it !

Ofwat does have teeth the big problem the people at Ofwat assumed the water companies would do a good job at self regulating themselves and this has failed, so they hit them with fines, but the companies incorporate the fines into their business plans knowing that the fines are coming, but what's worse is the Board of Ofwat no the water companies management are doing a bad job but they don't know what to do about it.

Private corporation always do that. That is their single purpose. If you give anything to a corporation, it will run it for profit, and profit only. It's management is only succesful if they constantly growing the profit. There is literally no other measurment for success. If they fail, they are replaced. This will lead to ruthless ways, as profit must grow, regardless of everything else. Corporations evolving for centuries for that single purpose, we just trying to catch up with them recently, as more information is available about their practices. They are way ahead of us.

And what goes into them?

Some people started dying and others having to spend time in hospital, so they upped it to £115.

It's taught to you in public speaking/media classes that it apparently helps you appear confident. These days, it makes you look like an utter bellend, but I don't think they got the updated memo.

It is indeed against the law, and the Civil Service Code. You cannot accept gifts in any way shape or form. But apparently if you're the head of something in this country, no-one bats an eyelid.

Yep thats "the model"

Bottled water from Scotland, Highland springs. So how is scottish water worse than english water. I would always drink bottle water than tap water after the excrement videoed by many campaigners on there mess and incompetence. No red flags in Scotland or bad bacteria where being unformed not to drink tap water without boiling 1st. This man is a joke and liar.

It's because they have so much that they don't care about leakage. Scotland are terrible on leaks but it doesn't matter because there is so much water in Scotland. The reason you don't see the roads dug up is because they don't try and fix them

No not the UK, Scotland has perfect water, and its nationalised

@@dekmackie Whoops. Sorry.....Can you send us some....Pleease.🤣

@@DesJnr Sell you some! 😂😂Saying that, it will be worth a fortune in the future.

Us and Chile have fully privatised systems that are broken. Spain apparently has privatised water as well, but it's a lot more regulated. No David Black types having dinners with the heads of water companies for example.

And ironically, most of the water purifiers don't actually remove cryptosporidium. We should be good for faecal matter though. Never thought I'd be saying that line in the UK.

Does anyone here know the ins and outs of legally withholding payment of bills?

What about food? It's true farmers who do the work get paid the least in the supply chain.