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Adequate, existing legislation hasn’t been enforced by successive governments and the water companies have been allowed to pollute with impunity, paying £85 billion to shareholders since privatisation resulting in……

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• lack of investment

• inadequate sewage works, blockages, leaks and spills 

• weak and further weakened regulators

• outdated reliance on Combined Sewage Outfalls (CSOs) which are allowed to discharge in ‘exceptional’ circumstances. The water companies have their own interpretation of ‘exceptional’

• automatic right to connect new developments without ensuring the system has the capacity

…….compounded by…… 

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• climate change resulting in intense rain and flooding

• run off from roads, buildings and paving - more in recent years       

• population increase

• loss of flora and fauna

• lying and cheating!

​……………….and it’s not just sewage……..

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• intensive poultry farms - more than 60 chickens per person in Shropshire

• road run off

• forever chemicals

• pharmaceuticals

• animal flea and worm treatments                                                                                                                                                                                       

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