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Post by dogless on Sept 5, 2023 9:19:44 GMT
Perhaps swimming in our canals may be safer. It appears privatising our water companies hasn't helped progress on the environment. BBC News - Water firms illegally spilled sewage on dry days - data suggests www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66670132Rog |
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Post by on Sept 5, 2023 9:24:48 GMT
Yes lots of shit and it turns out it is going in on dry days as well as wet days.
Up at Bourne End near Marlow there is the little Marlow STW (Shit Transfer Works) where they have a couple of nice little outlets a few hundred yards above what has always been a popular swimming area.
The swimming place is marked on old maps as an official bathing area.
Corporate Thuggery.
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Post by Aloysius on Sept 5, 2023 9:37:43 GMT
But Maggie said that the market would find it's natural level. Funny how pseudo-Darwinian theories always seem to be most popular with the worst people.
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Post by dogless on Sept 5, 2023 10:25:20 GMT
To be fair she was probably right ... it's just that only the shareholders envisaged this level.
Rog
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Post by brummieboy on Sept 5, 2023 11:57:59 GMT
From my experience of the Black Country and the Erewash, canal swimming does not seem to have too much of a downside.
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Post by Jim on Sept 5, 2023 15:21:39 GMT
Not all canals are clean though e.g the Calder and Hebble Navigation, mix of river and canal so it still gets the shit, same with the aire below leeds.
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Post by on Sept 5, 2023 15:33:28 GMT
Little Marlow just now. Seems alright today but sometimes this one is well rough  |
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