Southern Water discharged enormous volumes of raw sewage into protected coastal waters for nearly six years causing “very considerable environmental damage” because it was cheaper than treating it, a court has heard.
This was “the worst case brought by the Environment Agency in its history”, the court was told. Southern Water had acted “deliberately” and had reaped “considerable financial advantage” by allowing the discharges.
The Environment Agency’s biggest ever investigation uncovered how the privately owned company dumped untreated sewage into seas that were home to shellfish beds and were supposed to be some of the most protected marine environments in the country.
As well as being owned by Greensands Holdings Southern Water shares a number of directors in common with Bowspirit Holdings. Would anyone like to guess which political party all three companies contributed too while making around 11,000 separate discharges of raw sewage into rivers and beaches in North Kent?
And while you're thinking about that do you think they voted to remain in the EU where independent inspectors testing the quality of the waters in the Solent raised concerns or were they in the Vote Leave camp wanting standards to be lowered so the people of Kent could have the Brexit Bonus of more shit in their drinking water?
