Freelance consultant Former Director Ideas Test CIO one of Arts Councils Creative People and Places projects environmentalist,allotment holder, keen cyclist
Faversham, Kent
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Lucy Medhurst retweeted
5 children ill after playing in the Thames; an unwell Kayaker; a rower who couldn't sit some of his GCSEs due to E coli.
Meanwhile, publicly owned Eau de Paris has opened up the Seine for swimmers.
Enough is enough. End the disaster of privatised water now.
Well done @RiverActionUK for your work co-ordinating legal complaints against Thames Water! vist.ly/4guix
Lucy Medhurst retweeted
England's water industry and govt put put inflated numbers about the cost of nationalisation.
I asked the Minister to explain the social cost of leaving water in private ownership. It is likely to be over £1 trillion by 2050. Question was notified in advance.
Watch his reply.
Lucy Medhurst retweeted
"Southern Water under fire for falsely reporting 100-hour sewage release at Tankerton, near Whitstable."
@SouthernWater claim that 100 hour sewage dumping of Tankerton beach as an IT glitch. Yea, right, how many times have we heard that one?
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Lucy Medhurst retweeted
These are the people who blocked the swift brick amendment last night. 102 Labour Peers thanks to the rather extreme 3 line whip which just goes to show how much #Labour do NOT want to help nature let alone swifts. Normally a 3 line whip is used for fairly extreme amendments.
That’s me done
Dormice, otters and other rare wildlife ‘at risk’ from planning reforms, experts warn lbc.co.uk/article/wildlife-a…
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Lucy Medhurst retweeted
As yes the old double the cost of the sewage works trick.
Water companies have a terrible and rather regular habit of doing this, cost of Cambridge new sewage works went from £400 million to £700 million and guess who was been asked to pay for it all?
Just ask the good people of Witney in Oxfordshire.
cambridge-news.co.uk/news/ca…
Lucy Medhurst retweeted
"Water bills to rise again for millions of households."
Yep, just when you thought they's screwed you enough already they're coming back for more and get it.....
thetimes.com/uk/environment/…
Lucy Medhurst retweeted
No apology yet I see from @DefraGovUK about wilfully misleading the public with their totally made up, totally facetious, economically illiterate, "We are not looking at nationalisation because it would cost over £100 billion of public money", bullish*t.
The People’s Commission found that the £100bn figure is "serious scaremongering and based on biased evidence".
More below 👇👇👇
thepeoplescommissiononthewat…
Lucy Medhurst retweeted
Why isn’t this headline news? The implications are horrifying … theguardian.com/environment/…
Lucy Medhurst retweeted
"What’s really in the water at Lake Windermere?."
So the @EnvAgency take one sample per week for 4 months at each of Windermere's 4 designated bathing sites and rate them as "Excellent".
Citizen scientists took more than a 1,000 samples from the lake over two and a half years and found harmful levels of bacteria so high that many of the sites sampled would be rated "Poor". 🤔
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Lucy Medhurst retweeted
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Lucy Medhurst retweeted
In case you missed it in one of its last dying breaths before being axed Ofwat has allowed water companies to double, yes double the amount they pay back on their steaming piles of debt from £11,057,000,000 in 2019 - 2024 to £22,047,000,000 in 2025 - 2030.
And guess who gets to pay for every damn penny of it.
Today’s shock @ofwat briefing to city showing allowing doubling ( to £22bn) water companies allowed to take for return on capital (Thank you David Hall for pointing this out) for next 5 years. #peoplescommission
Lucy Medhurst retweeted
So @AnglianWater has been fined £62.8 million for illegally dumping their sewage into the environment.
In an act of self-pity CEO Mark Thurston, said: “We understand the need to rebuild trust with customers and that aspects of our performance need to improve to do that."
Would that by any chance be the same Mark Thurston who was formerly CEO of that other great British success story HS2? Well of course it would. "Trebles all round."
theguardian.com/business/202…
Lucy Medhurst retweeted
"Water companies have ‘cheated us out of £84 billion’ – Feargal Sharkey."
And they have.
channel4.com/news/water-comp…
Lucy Medhurst retweeted
"Serious pollution by water companies rose by 60 per cent last year."
Now how's all that banning bonuses thing, all that sending people to jail thing working out for you? What a totally waste of time.
Time to put someone serious in charge.
thetimes.com/uk/environment/…
Lucy Medhurst retweeted
Oh look, a water company trying to fiddle the numbers, surely not!
Step forward @unitedutilities
🚨Financial conflicts of interest & phantom reductions: Sewage in Windermere updates🚨
United Utilities has claimed it has cut phosphorus pollution into Windermere by 50%.
So, we obviously asked for the data and it simply doesn’t stack up.
Our latest report reveals:
➡️ No post-investment monitoring to support their claims
➡️ Incomplete data used as evidence
➡️ Key figures based on crude assumptions
Why would they want to claim progress if it hasn’t actually happened? One thing’s for sure: they don’t have or won’t provide the evidence to back up their claim.
Full report: savewindermere.com/blog/50-r…
The Bespoke Performance Commitment shambles.
We have recently had a back and forth with United Utilities’ on their “Wonderful Windermere” Bespoke Performance Commitment (BPC). While this may sound appealing, the scheme allows UU to claim credit for pollution reductions based on models and assumptions, not necessarily real-world measurements.
We outline financial conflicts of interest around Windermere, illegal spilling, opaque models, and more. It’s well worth a read. We believe this could become a greenwashing exercise, offering minimal environmental gains while bolstering UU’s ‘reputation’. Read more in our latest blog and letters to OFWAT to learn why we’re pushing back.
Full report: savewindermere.com/blog/wond…
Lucy Medhurst retweeted
Oh the joys of privatisation, translate that into greed, incompetence and mismanagement.
Lucy Medhurst retweeted
Holy sh*t…. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
Lucy Medhurst retweeted
Mentioning United Utilities can anyone explain how a company can double its profits in just one year, from £170m to £355m, and yet is still be allowed to increase prices by a whopping 32%?
Yet again it's the customers who get played and the regulator @Ofwat sits back and allows it to happen.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0ln…
