England’s water companies were privatized and subsequently the shareholders cut investment and took billions of pounds (billions of dollars) out in dividends. Austerity meant state investment in monitoring and verification was also cut. Now the most important marine environments around the UK, unique and important places on a world scale, where the warm Gulf Stream meets the European continental plate and huge amounts of carbon are reserved in key ecosystems are being poisoned.
Now all of the major UK parties apart from the Tories are supporting change. The Labour party has stood in support of the Inews manifesto for improvement whilst, with the exception of the far right party, Reform UK, the other opposition parties have officially committed to implementing it.
At this point, IMHO Brits can best go to http://stopthetories.vote and find out how to vote for one of the parties which will try to fix this situation.
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England’s water companies were privatized and subsequently the shareholders cut investment and took billions of pounds (billions of dollars) out in dividends. Austerity meant state investment in monitoring and verification was also cut. Now the most important marine environments around the UK, unique and important places on a world scale, where the warm Gulf Stream meets the European continental plate and huge amounts of carbon are reserved in key ecosystems are being poisoned.
Now all of the major UK parties apart from the Tories are supporting change. The Labour party has stood in support of the Inews manifesto for improvement whilst, with the exception of the far right party, Reform UK, the other opposition parties have officially committed to implementing it.
At this point, IMHO Brits can best go to http://stopthetories.vote and find out how to vote for one of the parties which will try to fix this situation.
Please [visit the article in it’s original location](https://inews.co.uk/news/sewage-dumped-for-over-100000-hours-in-englands-marine-protected-areas-3142976). Journalism like this in mainstream media is important. Sometimes there are soft paywall problems which make the article impossible to read though [so here’s a link to the archive just in case](https://archive.is/Mbd7n)
The article text is also in the [unitedkingdom sub version of this post](https://new.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1dtij3j/sewage_dumped_for_more_than_100000_hours_in/)
100000 hours send like a lot, but at least it wasn’t 11.4 years