Cryptosporidium - is anyone having to boil their water?

We have been warned that it is almost certain that people will die as a result of the failure of the water companies.

Foreign owners aren’t interested in water quality, they are only in it for financial benefits. It’s disgusting . A few years ago we cleaned up our beaches and had EU blue flags, not any more. Am due to go on half term holiday in South Devon. Now seriously reconsidering

www.dwi.gov.uk/consumers/learn-more-about-your-water/cryptosporidium/

He cannot possibly say what the outcome will be. If someone has sabotaged the water supply and that person can be traced, of course they will be prosecuted.

vegansrock

Foreign owners aren’t interested in water quality, they are only in it for financial benefits. It’s disgusting . A few years ago we cleaned up our beaches and had EU blue flags, not any more. Am due to go on half term holiday in South Devon. Now seriously reconsidering

This is one area of Brixham.

Whilst it is frightening, there are in fact thousands of cases of Cryptosporidium in many areas of the country annually.

I am not saying it is ok, far from it, but I wouldn't cancel or change a holiday because of this unless I had actually booked to stay in thst area of Bricham in the next couple of weeks.

vegansrock

Foreign owners aren’t interested in water quality, they are only in it for financial benefits. It’s disgusting . A few years ago we cleaned up our beaches and had EU blue flags, not any more. Am due to go on half term holiday in South Devon. Now seriously reconsidering

The shareholders don’t dictate operational matters.

Germanshepherdsmum

He cannot possibly say what the outcome will be. If someone has sabotaged the water supply and that person can be traced, of course they will be prosecuted.

Oh yes that old chestnut.

The truth is that our waters, including, rivers, ground water, sea and drinking water are being contaminated on a daily basis whether from sewerage, burst/cracked pipes, toothless regulators etc.

The amount of prosecutions can be counted on one hand. An example if this is my local provider Southern Water - they regularly pump thousands of gallons of water into our river and sea, day after day. About 3 years ago the EA managed to fine them millions of pounds. But they took the hit and have done practically zero about the issue. It is almost as if they bake in these fines rather than spend money in renewing the infrastructure.

Germanshepherdsmum

vegansrock

Foreign owners aren’t interested in water quality, they are only in it for financial benefits. It’s disgusting . A few years ago we cleaned up our beaches and had EU blue flags, not any more. Am due to go on half term holiday in South Devon. Now seriously reconsidering

The shareholders don’t dictate operational matters.

No they simply laugh all the way to the bank. That is the major issue.

I shall await the outcome of the current investigations rather than stirring the pot.

Germanshepherdsmum

I shall await the outcome of the current investigations rather than stirring the pot.

We are way past the time when the pot needs stirring. We need serious change to the way our water industry is run and regulators with a serious bite.

I thought you were stirring the pot? I’ll leave you to it.

Whitewavemark is expressing her opinion, which is what we all do on this forum. Does it count as 'stirring the pot' only when you don't agree with it?

I’m in the same water area as you Whitewave and additionally we live only about ten miles from the coast. Sewage is regularly pumped into the sea and everyone around here knows that. Having said that I think our sewage is operated by Portsmouth Water, although we don’t live in Portsmouth. It could be Portsmouth who are pumping into the sea. Our drinking water is supplied by Southern Water.

Ours is definitely Southern Water.

gsm I am aware that you are a conservative with both large and small. “C”, which of course means that you prefer things to largely remain as they are.

Not for me I’m afraid.

I hate that our rivers are dying, that rivers like the Wye that I swam in as a child and even took my own children as teenagers to canoe and swim in - is no longer healthy.

If no one “stirs” the status quo nothing will ever change and our waters will become places of utter filth.

People often say theres nothing the government can do
Yes there is. You grow a pair.
Call their uk representatives into the office and telll them to clear their desks.
Their answer will surely be you can’t do that
Yes I can and and I just did: Sue me.
That’s all we need, someone with a pair of balls.
Anyone got a better idea because the present system is just taking the piss ( no pun intended)

How does a government minister sack an executive in the private sector petra?

Germanshepherdsmum

How does a government minister sack an executive in the private sector petra?

Use your imagination! The government has bailed more than one water company out as a result of overpaying themselves and their shareholders. It is a disgrace.

No government minister has power to sack someone employed in the private sector. Fact.

Germanshepherdsmum

No government minister has power to sack someone employed in the private sector. Fact.

Wrong.

Recommendation by regulation s committee.

“give Ofwat powers to prevent directors of companies that are responsible for serious pollution incidents from continuing to work in the sector, providing individual accountability.”

I am in the south-west and I’m totally appalled at Southwest water. I have not paid my sewage charge for months. I just pay for the water I use,…if they want to take me to court so be it..

Here is a FACT

England is one of a very, very few countries in the world that has an entirely privatised water supply sector.

Whitewavemark2

In the normal supplier/customer relationship, if I am displeased at the service that I am receiving, or the way a particular company is conducting its business, I avoid that supplier, but this is not a normal relationship.

It is pure monopoly and we are all being exploited.

Exactly. Whilst I can understand, but not necessarily agree with, the privatisation of the energy sector which gives us choice of supplier, and the traditional customer/supplier relationship, this does not apply with the water companies. I have no choice of provider, cannot take my business elsewhere with water and sewage. The privatisation of water and sewerage provision should never have been permitted, and as we are all seeing now, the only beneficiaries are the companies and their shareholders.

The government could actually enforce the regulations, or tighten them up, not sit on their hands and not just say it's a private company - so basically can do what they want. The management should be sacked, fined, jailed, whatever.

Germanshepherdsmum

We don’t yet know how the problem has arisen.

That won’t stop anyone having an opinion GSM.

The fact is, wwm, Ofwat has not been given the powers you mention. And nor are they likely to be.

Funny isn’t it, but Labour have been in power since the water industry was privatised in 1989 but still it remains privatised. Nobody mentions that.