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Much as I applaud the Environment Agency for enforcing this action against Severn/Trent water, I do have some reservations about the entire business landscape that water companies operate within in the UK. The water companies cleaned up their act, and consequently our rivers, a long time ago. We had rivers with actual fish in them!
Then we (the long-term duped UK populace) voted in a government that has worked tirelessly to eliminate anything that might put a business off from investing within the water sector.
The regulations put in place to prevent destruction of our rivers were nullified by allowing raw discharge under “emergency conditions”. So it’s easy to see why the water companies might feel “protected” from prosecution.