Deadstick
Platinum Member
What i don't get is why anyone with half a brain would think Water should be in private hands when profit for shareholders is the prime concern, as Tommy said some things are to provide service for the population i would include rail and energy in that. it's the Conservative Taliban wing that's brought us to where we are now.As London was growing up around the Thames, all the piss and shit just flowed down the centre of streets into the Thames, pretty much how the whole planet operated. So in the Victorian days, they built sewers to take this sewage away from the streets and the Thames, but with one failing, rainwater and toilet sewage went into the same pipe. That's called a combined sewer. Many countries copied this. But when you have rainfall that creates too much volume for the sewage plants, it overflows into watercourses/rivers. It has done this from day one. New housing estate have to have separate sewers, one for toilet shit, one for surface water.
The problem is, hundreds of thousand miles of UK sewer pipes are combined sewers. The likes of Tommy Tit feels nationalisation will fix this, but cloud cuckoo land is another topic. Unless we rebuild most of the sewers with £trillions, more frequent rains will just fill the rivers with shit.
And that's UK's sewers summed up, no matter where the finance comes from.