
Another day, another story about the literal s**tshow that our water companies have become.
Yesterday Thames Water was fined £3.3 million for pumping so much undiluted sewage into the rivers near Gatwick Airport in 2017 that the water turned black, killing more than a thousand fish, including, ironically, brown trout. It’s kind of funny until you realise that our cherished rivers have become a kind of vomit-inducing diarrhoea soup. I’m no fan of those outdoor swimmers, but enough is enough.