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Some of the implications of profit first private water utilities in England that we are only now just discovering are just astonishing.

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ter-manchester

We had 10,763 reported sewage spills into Scottish rivers and seas last year. Staggeringly this also appears to be the case: "Scottish Water monitors only nine per cent of overflows, and is required to monitor just three per cent - while in England and Wales, 80 per cent are monitored, with plans to ramp up to 100 per cent by the end of next year."

As a fairly keen angler I've got nothing but contempt for both the privatised water companies and the seemingly indolent state-owned Scottish Water. As a tax payer it is just enraging.

Paying private sector rates for anything in circumstances where it could be provided as - or more - efficiently by either the public sector or a mutualised model is one thing, but paying private sector rates for a literally 5hite service is just grotesque.