Saving Windermere: Raw sewage polluting England's largest lake | Times Reports 

This is an amazing film. Well done Matt. We are behind you. The Lakes are an integral feature of the British Isles. They are known worldwide. We need to preserve their integrity for the environmental benefits alone let alone for tourism.

And the water companies have the gall to threaten that unless they are allowed to pollute, they will increase charges.

I really hope the BBC offer Matt a job once he's fixed Windermere

Well done Matt, we're all supporting you until we get the Windermere lake back to it's glory days.

Worth remembering that a considerable percentage of our drinking water comes from these polluted rivers

This is so sad, the damage humans are doing to this planet and governments doing nothing to stop it.

This is something you'd expect in a 3d world country.

whilst water companies can just dump sewerage into rivers and seas with no conseqences ,then he hit it on the nail it is cheaper to do that than build enough capacity to stop this happening.

Sadly our rivers in the south are also plagued with raw sewage. Profit over environment apparently.

About time we postponed paying our water bills. The utilities will then realise that the British public have finally said "No More" to exploitation.

Great work, keep going!

Absolutely infuriating and disgusting. People need to be dragged from their beds, thrown in jail and left to rot for this unbelievable abuse of our most precious river systems. The shame of this government that lets this outrage happen, and all for the love of money.

basics of civil engineering; where does the poop go?

I'm glad the problem has absolutely nothing at all to do with the foreign, privately-owned water companies being more concerned with the bottom line than investment in water infrastructure. If I thought that the privatisation of our national drinking water could lead to problems, then I'd be very upset indeed! P.S if you see him, tell that idiot Sid

Great film. Keep up the fight. It is so important.

Well done Matt, keep up the good fight. Excellent film. I have most of my fondest childhood memories at Windermere.

Well done , keep up the good work .

Well done Matt, keep it up. We support you👍🙏

Love what you do Matt, we are waking people up in Plymouth to the same pollution problems, we MUST make Water Companies STOP outpouring s**t, and get them to upgrade infrastructure NOW, many thanks mate 🙏

Feels a bit strange clicking "thumbs up" for this video. But, it IS a great video. Unfortunately, the central theme of the video is very much a thumbs down. Windermere is just one example of how water companies across the UK are generating huge profits by exploiting the environment. What I don't understand, is why aren't the government (and local authorities) clamping down on this? Is it really just all about money? Do the local and central governments value tax income so highly that they'll accept environmental catastrophe as an acceptable by product?

Renationalise our utilities now!

Great to meet you this morning Matt, you’re doing a fantastic job. There is no excuse for such ignorance in todays world! I cannot imagine how the directors of our UK water companies morally live with themselves and really cannot imagine how they are not brought to account as they should be by the Environmental Agency and the government!! 😢

Does Murdoch know what the Times are up to?

Water companies making vast profits for the directors, they’re not bothered.

I stayed at a smashing guest house in Windemere once, it was run by a respected gentleman and a retired chartered accountant. The stay was pleasant but he spent a lot of time on his phone having trouble and talking to all manner of people, a lady from the Co-op bank, a gentleman living on the Eastern seaboard of the United States, he tried to call British Telecom too but they were useless.

Wow, and that's AFTER 45 £million of improvements by United Utilities in recent years.

During the 1990's the town of Oamaru decided to spend $20 million building a waste water treatment plant. Now the people of Oamaru can visit the sea without having to dodge fatburgs, condoms, sanitary pads, and all manner of crap. Paid for by a short lived special charge on the rates bill. Best thing ever. Previously, Oamaru sewerage was held in Imhoff tanks, which allowed the solids to settle out. When the tanks were full, the valve was opened, and solids were flushed into the sea. Before the new treatment plant was completed, I had the unpleasant task of telling a family that they were sitting among condoms and tampons, as their children frolicked on the sea shore. I will never forget the look of fear and disgust on the parents face when I pointed out the fat and effluent. Oamaru has a stony beach with plenty of seaweed, all good at hiding toilet flushings. Now , the sea shore is clean when before it was filthy. Now, the shore is celebrated and host to many festivals. As it should be.

Well said matt .

Heritage went out the window ages ago, enjoy. ☺️

Well that's what happens when you privatize public goods where the consumer has no choice at all as the water companies in their areas are the only providers, and have a government that reveres deregulation as regulation is considered burdensome to business. As in One In Two Out and such like. Guess people get what they vote for.

Yuk! How can an advanced country allows this to happen?

I totally agree, but how short are them shorts???? do we dare call them hot pants?!?!?!

Great work but as full on supporters of the Tories does The Times and Sunday Times see no irony in contributing to their mismanagement? How about a continuous front page campaign about this? No? Didn't think so

They will not hear...

There was a new plant installed in 2012 so I dont know where the sewage is coming from

Oh and they allegedly care about the environment.

Why is it England's lake and not Britain or Cumbria's lake?

Not sure if I'm barking up a tree here but... if we built false beaver dams made out of hay bales staked to the river beds would have help stop some of the down flow of sewage? Just a thought but maybe worth a citizens study.

They just pumped a load more straight in direct for 12 hours in the last month may 2024

They are a tool of those with power ...

If people having extensions built put their rain water into a soak away instead of piping it into the foul water system which is illegal it would stop sewage plants from getting flush through which causes pollutants to escape .

The BBC right now 🙈🙊🙉

CSOs are the only way to handle storms The cost to build a storage facility for all the rain water that comes would be the size of a stadium The real problem is overpopulation

BAH !!!!!

Stop immediately no excuse

It's 2023 the Human Race Better Step Up it's Responsibility in Keeping Our House 🌍Clean 🫧 or SUFFER the Consequences"..

ENGLISH HERITAGE HAS GOT ENOUGH MONEY TO FIX THE PROBLEM WHERE ARE THEY WHEN YOU NEED THEM

Beware of the sheep 🐏🐑🐑🐑🐂🐑🐂

Great film. Shame that Matt uses a car to make the film which adds pollution to the atmosphere. We need to think of other ways to get around as well as all the aspects of pollution he is talking about.

The times?!!! ,, sorry can't believe a word of your fake news. Not buying.