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Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:🧵 1/2While the story hook is Brad Pitt abandoning a QT river shoot, the reality is Queenstown Council polluting the Shotover river.Regulator ORC has recorded illegal sewage discharges up to 9,000 times consented levels from the Shotover wastewater treatment plant. The disposal field is hopelessly broken, so QLDC is releasing 12,000 cubic metres of sewage *per day* for up to five years.<a href="https://crux.org.nz/crux-news/new-blog-post-24/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://crux.org.nz/crux-news/new-blog-post-24/</a><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Queenstown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Queenstown</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sewage</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈We went Brexit, which 'liberated' the Water Companies from European rules and now the Boat Race becomes more about dodging the biological and physical hazards in the water than beating the other team. We can have nice things or we can surrender to Fascism and Gangsters. <a href="https://www.mylondon.news/whats-on/whats-on-news/state-river-thames-delays-boat-31414665" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mylondon.news/whats-on/whats-on-news/state-river-thames-delays-boat-31414665</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#London</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Thames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thames</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brexit</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sewage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BoatRace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoatRace</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@rstein" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@rstein</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@thorsheim" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@thorsheim</a> that's not how <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/utilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#utilities</a> work:<ol><li>One cannot unsubscribe to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewage</a> and having neither <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/electricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electricity</a> nor <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a> will get the building condemned.</li><li>Same with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BuildingInsurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BuildingInsurance</a>: They need to have that againdt <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/fire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fire</a> or the building will be condemned & seized by the City Fire Chief until reinsured retroactively and fully inspected by a Fire Inspector.</li></ol><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NotLegalAdvice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NotLegalAdvice</a>

Pedestriansfirst“The campaigners from Windrush Against Sewage Pollution (WASP) and Save Windermere identified 140 illegal spill days in 2024, more than in any of the three previous years. United Utilities told BBC News that the campaigners' findings were "inaccurate" and some of the data "erroneous". The company declined to put in writing, despite repeated requests, any specific examples of mistakes or omissions.” Draw your own conclusions! <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Windermere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Windermere</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnitedUtilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedUtilities</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sewage</a>

NonilexHundreds of people swept up in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> admin’s crackdown on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> are being kept at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/overcrowded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overcrowded</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Krome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Krome</a> detention in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Miami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Miami</a>, sleeping on cement floors amid the stench of body odor & raw <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewage</a> – conditions that lawyers, families & fmr detainees call <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/inhumane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inhumane</a>. One woman…said she & fellow detainees were left in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/shackles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shackles</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/chains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chains</a> on buses overnight, so long that some urinated on themselves. She said she was put in a cell w/ ~30 women before she was deported.<a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article302968939.html#storylink=cpy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article302968939.html#storylink=cpy</a>

AI6YR Ben250,000 gallons of poo in the park, EWWW.<a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/ThousandOaks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThousandOaks</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewage</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/ConejoValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConejoValley</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/yuck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yuck</a> <a href="https://www.kclu.org/2025-03-17/conejo-valley-park-hit-by-large-sewage-spill" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.kclu.org/2025-03-17/conejo-valley-park-hit-by-large-sewage-spill</a>

The Japan TimesThree workers died Friday morning after collapsing inside a manhole at a sewer construction site in the city of Oga, Akita Prefecture. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/07/japan/akita-sewage-deaths/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/07/japan/akita-sewage-deaths/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#japan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/akita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#akita</a>

Miro CollasSupreme Court strikes down EPA rules on discharge of water pollution - The Washington Post <a href="https://archive.ph/UTyPL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/UTyPL</a>"The ruling came in an unusual case that featured sewage and one of the nation’s greenest cities, San Francisco, battling the Environmental Protection Agency."<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EPA</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pollution</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sewage</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayIts official; OFWAT cannot do its job:A new report from DEFRA concludes that 'there appear to be limited mechanisms for directly checking what has actually been delivered [against water company's plans]...This has raised questions over whether money from customer bills has been used to deliver what was set out in the business plans agreed by Ofwat'!Now the Q. is whether OFWAT is unable to do its job because it was set up to fail, or because it been unwilling to try?<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewage</a> h/t FT

The Japan TimesA Japanese government panel has agreed to promote digital transformation to tackle the aging of public infrastructure, including water supply and sewage systems. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/21/japan/society/digital-transformation-water-systems/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/21/japan/society/digital-transformation-water-systems/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#japan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/digitaltransformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#digitaltransformation</a>

Glyn MoodyRobert Macfarlane: We shouldn’t have to risk our health every time we get in the water - <a href="https://goodlawproject.org/update/robert-macfarlane-we-shouldnt-have-to-risk-our-health-every-time-we-get-in-the-water/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://goodlawproject.org/update/robert-macfarlane-we-shouldnt-have-to-risk-our-health-every-time-we-get-in-the-water/</a> "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Watercompanies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Watercompanies</a> are drowning in debt and pumping out <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewage</a>. It’s time for Labour to get serious on water pollution."

Emeritus Prof Christopher MaySo Thames Water has been allowed buy the Court to access the rescue loan organised by its largest creditors.... but that loan is at a stinging 9.75% interest rate.Now, knowing as we do that interest is the cost of risk, we can see two things; the loan is structured with a high(er) risk of non-repayment than your mortgage....and, while TW staying in the private sector it can still be drained of cash by its (so-called) investors.<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewage</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThamesWater</a> h/t FT

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayWhat's coming up in the continuing saga of the chaotic 'reorganisation' of Thames Water, courtesy of the Financial Times... culminating, if things don't go TW;s way with the money running out on March 24th!enjoy<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThamesWater</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewage</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a>

San Francisco BaykeeperSF dumps millions of gallons of sewage during big storms -- not cool, guys!! 💩 ⛈️ ☔️As our executive director Sejal Choksi-Chugh told KQED, discharge areas are sacrifice zones where the city has nowhere else to release polluted water."They're not allowed to be discharging this much bacteria and pollution into the Bay, yet they are doing it."<a href="https://www.kqed.org/science/1996145/sf-dumps-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-during-big-storms-surfers-say-that-needs-to-stop" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.kqed.org/science/1996145/sf-dumps-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-during-big-storms-surfers-say-that-needs-to-stop</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sf</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sanfrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sanfrancisco</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sfpuc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sfpuc</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewage</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sewagepollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewagepollution</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sfbay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sfbay</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sanfraciscobay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sanfraciscobay</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayMore detail on the failure(s) of Thames Water: only around a third (possibly less) of its sewage processing plants have the infrastructure in place to deal with the demand for sewage throughput in their local area.Once again, as we get expect given the choice between paying investor dividends or actually delivering the services they are (supposed) obliged to, the investors won out... all while OFWAT has been asleep at the wheel.Nationalisation beckons?<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewage</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThamesWater</a> h/t FT

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayIts not just investors draining Thames Water of funds; TW is spending £15mn a month on advisors & consultants (on restructuring), most of whom are lawyers.Overall cost of 'saving' TW is projected to reach around £200mn in 2025.One might conclude, that this second bite of the cherry (the first being the dividends paid out instead of investing in infrastructure) mean TW's bills are a direct transfer to the rich from its customers!Professional welfare?<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewage</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inequality</a> h/t FT

San Francisco BaykeeperOur field investigator captured footage today showing SFPUC's sluice gates once again overflowing--releasing feces, trash & other pollution directly into Mission Creek and SF Bay 😠 This is why we're taking legal action to get SFPUC to clean up its act: <a href="https://baykeeper.org/press_release/san-francisco-caught-dumping-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-into-sf-bay-every-year/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://baykeeper.org/press_release/san-francisco-caught-dumping-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-into-sf-bay-every-year/</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sfpuc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sfpuc</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sanfrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sanfrancisco</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sf</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/bayarea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bayarea</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewage</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pollution</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/missioncreek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#missioncreek</a>

barrys not henryuAnother real time sewage spill map for ingland<a href="https://www.sewagemap.co.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sewagemap.co.uk/</a><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewage</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/rivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rivers</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/sea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sea</a>

The Japan TimesAmid efforts to rescue a driver who fell into a sinkhole in Saitama Prefecture, experts warn that Japan's aging sewer systems could mean more sinkholes will appear in the future. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/31/japan/society/sinkhole-drainage-pipe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/31/japan/society/sinkhole-drainage-pipe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#japan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sinkholes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sinkholes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/saitama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#saitama</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/yashio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yashio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewage</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayThe failure of water privatisation & its subsequent regulation is ever more apparent!Having drained the water companies of capital via dividends & executive pay, the water companies have now got the supine OFWAT to agree to an average 26% water bill increase this year, the largest since privatisation, to fix the very problems caused by the investors draining the firms of cash;OFWAT has been well & truly captured by the industry it purports to regulate!<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewage</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/privatisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privatisation</a> h/t FT

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