Ironic that several foreign, publicly owned, utility companies, own shares in our privately owned utility companies in order to keep costs down for their own nationals. Deutsche Bahn, for example, can charge 40% less for travel in Germany because we are subsidising them with our fares and taxes.
@@dolceanstar And that of course is our three main utilities water, electricity and gas. Surprise surprise France and Germany, ban their utilities being bought by foreign entities!.... -No wonder they run the EU.
@@Withnail1969 The population is growing all the time 67 million at least so the forward and control needs to be upgraded and fit to purpose, it obviously is not at this time and it is critical.
I agree but then without fundamental change, all this will eventually do is then push UU to then just start charging more and more to recover their legal losses...
Why on earth are we having to protest over corporate misbehaviour, clean nature is a right not to be abused by these big companies, the utility companies minimum requirement is to be clean.
@@unknownband1308 What fine them 1-5% of what they saved over the yrs. As for prison got no chance. The game is rigged. And ppl just really don't care. As long as they can watch programmes that tell them what think, their happy. Should of been outrage and more for what happened 2020-2022. Most ppl forgot that scam/test to see what the sheep would do. And the sheep done what they were told and now their just about to sign over british control to WEF and WHO.
So United Utilities can dump sewage into Lake Windermere but speed boats are banned unless they control speed to under 10mph because of pollution. Even the brown floaters United Utilities dump in the water break that limit as soon as they hit the water. It is an absolute disgrace.
@@frontenac5083 Head of Regional Engagement then. Representative / mouthpiece for the company. Speaks volumes about the pedantry of your defence of this company, eh?
The word corrupt seems to have lost all meaning at this point. This is beyond mere corruption, it's evil. Pumping sewage into one of the crown jewels of one of our finest national park lake preserves like this, especially on such a scale by a legitimate business, is evil. They are serious criminals who should ALL be stripped of their wealth and locked up in prison to make a clear statement to the business world. United Utilities should then also be liquidated and the UK's water supplies re-nationalised into public ownership.
Does anyone remember when Britain had the filthiest beaches/coastal water/rivers and waterways in Europe in the nineties? The Tories were in power then too. Coincidence?
only because britain was the only country to bother checking its beaches/coastal water/rivers. everyone else didn't bother. don't trust anything the eu says.
OFWAT, like a majority of government regulatory bodies, always appear more concerned with protecting the commercial interests of the privatised companies than safeguarding the wider interests of the public and nation.
@@grahammawdsley4864 : why should we buy shareholder products by that same token. Public utilities should not be vehicles for the parasitism of the pin stripe suit mob.
We should never spill sewage in our beautiful lakes. This is so irresponsible by the sewage companies. My wife and I went there over 25 years and it is a beautiful part of England. These companies should be held responsible and we should not be forking the bill as tax payers!!
How has it allowed to become a problem ??? United Utilities previously known as Northwest water have always been in charge, so why have they allowed these problems to arise and escalate? Sheer neglect and mismanagement but senior management and executives collect salaries, annual pay rises and bonuses regardless of performance. Returning the water utility back into public ownership is the only way forward.
We all need to STOP paying our water bills until these companies completely stop doing this. Never mind what the "system '. Cutting by fifty per cent is not good enough.
Same with Anglian water,worst for leaks and dumping sewage ,got fined and told to give every customer two or three quid and promptly put up bills 10.1 %,highest in country ,they are nothing but scummy thieves.
The evasion of the spokesman is disgraceful. There should be no sewage being pumped into Lake Windermere. In addition we are finding that polluted tap water is causing infections and people are being told to boil the water in some areas. If this isn't enough reason to change the government, I don't know what is.
I hope this destroys the tourism industry for a couple of years, and every business in the area sues the company for loses. See if that doesn't shake things up a bit.
@@grahammawdsley4864 Well, usually a law firm puts together a pro bono class action suit at their own expense on behalf of a large group of plaintiffs and recoups their fees from the liable party if they win.
@@grahammawdsley4864 At the very least, it should make voters in the area consider the fact that all of this is the result of greedy Tories, privatising essential public services and turning the whole of the UK into a cash cow for themselves and their off shore Tax dodging cronies.
I'm not paying more for my water bills, when it is been proven that the English have already paid enough to do these repairs, but what did they do with that money hmmm....... shareholders. Why was water privatised, when there is zero competition? It should be publicly owned.
Thats what he means about "needing the money up front"..... from us, the customers. So what have they been doing with all the "up front" money we customers have been paying them over the last 10 years at least?...... Because the prices go up every year......where is the money ending up? These greedy corporates need prosecuting to the hilt!
and the privatised water companies then get more income from a higher customer base which should have been invested to cope with the increased sewage from the expected population increase.
Step 1: Release sewage Step 2: Tell public via the media Step 3: Public get upset Step 4: Labour promise to "nationalise" Step 5: Company sell shares to government at a huge premium
Wow never knew about this absolutely disgusting behaviour where are the environment agency id get a fine £1000 fine for fishing without a licence, And the fishermen look out pollution for the waterways of the country Disgusting
Share holders r to blame 4 everything from water trains, gas electricity, ect, and United utilities should be sued so much that they r bankrupt, and the Share holders have to cough up
Agree we should clean up the lakes in total, not just Windermere. But get really nervous when bandwagon Coogan steps up. Opportunist to the end, doesn't do anything for anyone unless there's something in it for him. Wish the campaign all the success...
I think what the spokeman is saying is that rain run-off that goes down roadside drains, enters the same pipes as sewage water from the household. The two are not separated. So when there is heavy rain, the sewage treatment cannot process the drainage quick enough, and it gets diverted into the lake. The solution most likely to work is to have a separate drainage system for run-off. Such a system could be used to fill reservoirs with clean water, while the sewage system would flow into the sewage treatment plants. The sewage flow would stay constant and predictable regardless of rainfall.
@@PeterCoutts-rc9mfAnd there is the disagreement. The water companies expect the government to make the infrastructure investment, and simultaneously expect to take all the profit from infrastructure for themselves. They want to socialise the the expenses and privatise the profit. Anyone can see that is an egregious swindle.
the population increase is monitored, expected and in many situations planed for, with the increased households giving the privatised water companies more revenue they should have been building infrastructure to cope.
This is in the middle of a national park and registered AONB. This should obviously be an untouchable. If its happening here, it can be literally anywhere.