Short 🧵 on sewage:
Following a complaint, in 2012 the EU Commission took the UK Gov to the European Court Justice over allowing water companies to dump sewage into rivers.
Court ruled it was illegal and that sewage overflows should only ever be used in "exceptional situations"
Following a complaint, in 2012 the EU Commission took the UK Gov to the European Court Justice over allowing water companies to dump sewage into rivers.
Court ruled it was illegal and that sewage overflows should only ever be used in "exceptional situations"
Last year @Ofwat wrote to WCs reminding them of their statutory obligations under section 94 WIA 1991. See below, that water companies must build and operate sewage systems capable of dealing with the contents of sewers, no matter what's in there or indeed how it got there. 
@Ofwat then wrote to WCs a 2nd time telling them that in Ofwat's opinion for 30 years WCs had been given all of the funding needed to meet their legal obligations under s94.
So WCs had the funding, clearly it's not been spent on the sewage system.
Q: What happened the money?
So WCs had the funding, clearly it's not been spent on the sewage system.
Q: What happened the money?
Q: Why have government / @ofwat not being enforcing the law, they clearly know and understand that it's being broken?
One law dictionary I've seen defines exceptional circumstances as:
"Circumstances that could not be reasonably foreseen and for which there was insufficient time to take the necessary action to resolve the situation arising from those circumstances."
TNX @itsjohncon for the tip
"Circumstances that could not be reasonably foreseen and for which there was insufficient time to take the necessary action to resolve the situation arising from those circumstances."
TNX @itsjohncon for the tip
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