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I will resist stating the equivalent of 'if we wanted to make progress we shouldn't have been staring from here'. But yes, our waters are not clean enough and this has to change. HMG just voted against a proposal to fix this, citing the maximum cost possible to turn every puddle into sparkling...

I'm more concerned about the sewage. We have had most of our North Kent beaches closed due to pollution from sewage this summer. This is symptomatic of the problem. And the problem is privatisation. Apparently we now have the worst beaches in the EU. Fortunately this is now irrelevant, because...

Thought I'd bounce your post as a rebuttal to bre'er inevitable above who thinks this is all unavoidable.

Have you factored in decades of neglect and asset stripping?

I wonder if this is what people had in mind when they rushed to vote for Thatcher and her privatisation agenda. A foreign-owned water supply, asset stripped, and pumping our own shit into our own sea. Lovely.