Windrush WASP
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Windrush Against Sewage Pollution- using data analysis and investigation to expose the regulatory failure and promote improvement. www,http://windrushwasp.org
No @WaterUK it is not ok for water companies to use our precious rivers as toilets to prop up obscene profits and bonuses. Spend bill payers' money on the service, not servicing yourselves. It's our water - keep it clean and safe for all. @Feargal_Sharkey @WWFLeadWater
"The Cunliffe Report is a joke. It protects water profiteers, screws over billpayers, and will do little to reduce pollution in our rivers and coastlines. The only solution is for water to be taken into public ownership" My new column for @theipaper inews.co.uk/opinion/the-cu…
Steve Reed is right. We should focus on facts. So let's start with eight claims made to @krishgm 1. The £100bn figure. This makes no sense and is not credibly evidenced. The true and fair value in law is close to zero. Legal expert @ewan_mg unpacks common-wealth.org/perspectives/h…
“I'm not going to focus on ideology." It would cost £100bn to nationalise water companies and the government would have to take that money from the NHS and education, Environment Secretary Steve Reed tells @krishgm
How the private water companies operate: 🤑Rack up the debt 🤑Pay themselves billions 😡Make us pay for everything 💩Sod the infrastructure. They're the reason our water supply is in crisis! ❌Beefier regulation won't fix it. WE NEED PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
"Cunliffe report won’t make one atom of the UK’s water any cleaner." Me, in today's @thetimes thetimes.com/uk/environment…
England water bills will rise by a third to fund privatisation. People already paid. Companies didn't invest, paid £85bn in dividends. Customers to pay again for service they don't get. Companies raise capital from customers, shareholders take profits. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Expecting a different form of regulation to fix the water industry is, frankly, rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The govt deliberately left out the option of public ownership from the review, but that’s the only real way to get the water industry to clean up its act.
Labour's arguments on water nationalisation are wilfully ignorant, stupid or just plain straightforward misrepresentations of the truth. You take your pick. Whatever it is, they're utterly incompetent. taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07/2…
When i first started filming underwater in rivers, 1989. Scenes like this only happened in extreme events, never came across sewage litter. Yet now, scenes like this are a common occurrence. Worse still every single river dive now results in seeing pollution. #pollution #sewage
💰BREAKING: Down from £100bn, the cost of nationalisation is now... £1bn. By the way, the ownership model that "doesn't work" in Paris just made the Seine swimmable again after 100 years. We encourage Steve Reed to take a dip in the Thames.
The Secretary of State for the Environment has spent a lot of time the last few days claiming that he has secured £104 billion private investment from the water industry. Which is really odd as yesterday the MP for Keighley and Ilkley told parliament that £93 billion of that…
Said in Commons people find it incredulous inquiry wasn’t allowed to look at public ownership & £100 billion cost of nationalisation cited by minister refuted by independent economists. Asked that record of tax avoidance by water companies be tackled. theguardian.com/business/2025/…
Water Commission's 465 page report for England makes 88 recommendations, including merger of regulators. Report prevented from considering public ownership. Can't solve the crisis without ending privatisation. No democratization of water industry. gov.uk/government/new…
Dear Laura Kuenssberg Please invite Liv Garfield, CEO of Severn Trent Water, onto your show. She's the best paid water company boss in the industry. Paid with bonuses, £3.18 million a year. £61,000 PER WEEK. What a bloody disgrace. #BBCLauraK #Disgraceful
Great reporting! I wonder how long they thought they’d get away with that for? ….
.@SteveReedMP has been out today trumpeting a goal to cut sewage spills 50% by 2030 against 2024 levels But Ofwat said last year that water co spending would cut spills 45% by 2030 against 2021 levels Reed goal gets you 225,199 sewage spills in 2030 Ofwat gets you 204,893!
Steve Reed falsely claims he got Thames Water to “stand down” their retention payments. This is false. They paid out millions in the first tranche and the second and third are simply paused & Thames expects to pay it as they are not performance related theguardian.com/environment/20…
"People are saying to 𝙮𝙤𝙪 it's unacceptable money - you can't say it back to them, you've got to act on it!" Environment Sec. @SteveReedMP agrees water bosses’ pay is outrageous, but what will 𝘩𝘦 do about it? @maitlis | @jonsopel
"Serious pollution by water companies rose by 60 per cent last year." Now how's all that banning bonuses thing, all that sending people to jail thing working out for you? What a totally waste of time. Time to put someone serious in charge. thetimes.com/uk/environment…
When Water UK welcomes a report you know it’s good news for the water companies and bad news for customers and the environment nature.com/articles/s4422…
Ultimately, at the heart of all rivers are the aquatic species that hardly get mentioned. Let's not ignore them. They are the ones fighting for their own survival yet constantly ignored. That needs to change. @BBCLookNorth #freshwaterfish #rivers #pollution
Pathetic interview of @SteveReedMP on @bbclaurak just now. @BBCNews had my analysis vetted recently by their head of data in face2face grilling but let @DefraGovUK and @WaterUK go unchallenged.
Interesting to hear by which metric Steve Reed is using to say water pollution is worse under nationalised Scottish water compared to privitised English water companies.
“I'm not going to focus on ideology." It would cost £100bn to nationalise water companies and the government would have to take that money from the NHS and education, Environment Secretary Steve Reed tells @krishgm