NO CLEAN WATER IN UK TILL 2025 – RE: Consultation on Strengthening Civil Sanctions

HOW DO YOU SANCTION INVESTMENT COMPANIES – NO ACCOUNTABILITY

UK WATER: Owned by funds, banks and billionaires across the world
Consultation on Civil Sanctions – For CIVILIANS – HAVE YOUR SAY.
SouthernWater: What We Hope to do – IS NOT WHAT WE DO
Water Bills INCREASING
UK PAY £4 – EGYPT PAY 0.04p a Cubic Metre
LEWES COUNCIL JAIL 68 Year Old FARMER FOR CONTAMINATING 1 MILE OF RIVER?

England’s water: the world’s piggy bank

England is one of the few countries in the world where water is fully owned by private companies. These companies answer to investors based thousands of miles away from their customers.

“What we have here is just a crazy system,” said Kate Bayliss, from the department of economics at SOAS University of London and author of several papers on England’s privatised water. “We are managing our water in the interests of offshore investors.”

A MUST READ ARTICLE:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2022/nov/30/englands-water-the-worlds-piggy-bank

CONSULTATION – HAVE YOUR SAY:

https://consult.defra.gov.uk/water-industry/environmental-civil-sanctions-consultation/consultation/subpage.2023-03-03.8944653374/

SEE THE CONSULTATION

This consultation seeks your views on the proposed approach to amending the Environmental Civil Sanctions (England) Order 2010 (‘the 2010 Order’) and the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (‘EPR’) to improve the effectiveness of civil penalties that can be levied by the Environment Agency (EA).

MAKE THE FINE HURT FOREIGN INVESTMENT COMPANIES: PROTECT UK FARMERS

ENGLAND THE WORLDS PIGGY BANK
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2022/nov/30/englands-water-the-worlds-piggy-bank

The 2010 Order provides for the following types of civil sanction:

Fixed monetary penalties
Variable monetary penalties (capped at £250,000)
Compliance notices
Restoration notices
Stop notices
Enforcement undertakings
Third-party undertakings

HAVE YOUR SAY

The proposed changes will affect the following broad sectors:

manufacturing
power generation and other combustion processes
storage, treatment, use and disposal of waste, including scrap metal
discharges to surface water and groundwater
radioactive substances
activities using solvents (e.g., dry cleaning)
mining and extractive industries
flood risk activities
pig and poultry farming

Waste operations
Water discharge activities
Flood risk activities
Nuclear
Process industry activities, including:
- Cement and Minerals
- Chemicals
- Combustion
- Energy from Waste (EfW)
- Food & Drink
- Intensive agriculture (Pigs and Poultry)
- Landfill
- Metals
- Oil and Gas
- Paper and textiles
- Refineries & Fuel

SOUTHERN WATER – QUALITY WORSENING:

According to their own annual report

“recorded an increase in serious category 1 and 2 pollutions from four in 2020 to 12 in 2021. We recorded 372 category 1-3 pollution incidents (2020: 400) in year.”

£1.10 A DAY ONLY 41p GOES ON OPERATIONS:

SW – annual-report-and-financial-statements-2021-22_amended210722.pdf Download

WATER BILLS INCREASING APRIL 2023 – but Southern Water investors made BILLIONS

ANGLIAN WATER FINES

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/water-company-hit-with-combined-fines-of-over-12m-for-pollution-incidents-in-east-england

UK PAY £4 – EGYPT PAYS 0.04p

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64489145

Of the selected global cities shown, many of the lowest tap water prices are in Asian cities. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia had the lowest average tap water price in 2021, at just 0.04 U.S. dollars per cubic meter.

The Egyptian capital of Cairo had the second lowest water price, where 1,000 liters of tap water cost 0.08 U.S. dollars. The northern Italian city of Milan has one of the lowest tap water prices in Europe at 0.49 U.S. dollars per cubic meter.