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Toxic chemicals found in river Trent

The water company should be held to account !
They factor fines into their buissness Model ,so we end up paying their fines.
A prison sentence for polluting our rivers would make the change that would matter.
Those that run and own the company's sould be sent down as they know exactly
What's happening and just ignore it.
 
Adam Wylie said:
The water company should be held to account !
They factor fines into their buissness Model ,so we end up paying their fines.
A prison sentence for polluting our rivers would make the change that would matter.
Those that run and own the company's sould be sent down as they know exactly
What's happening and just ignore it.
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Not sure that Severn-Trent are necessarily responsible for these chemicals being in the Trent?
 
yes ,send them down !! That might get them to sit up and take responsibility
And actually stop shoving all their crap into our waterways😡
 
Mark Swaby said:
Probably not all to do with the water company lots of chemicals are from ground water, runoff and landfill. To be honest 94 chemicals are a drop in the ocean. In West London the Colne was found to have 278 chemicals contaminating it from advanced tests. https://www.hertfordshiremercury.co...tion-reveals-hundreds-toxic-chemicals-8435341
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The article you highlight here Mark, correctly indicates that a major problem which we all seem to miss is the chemicals laying dormant in the sub strata. PCB's etc have been in the silt for decades, even having been banned from use in our fair land; the disturbance of the said silt by dredging or boat traffic can and does release many deadly, harmful chemicals into our water courses. This isn't to say the everyday pollution is not a problem; the land run offs and illegal sewage discharges are changing the rivers drastically. We now have rivers with excessive levels of Algae growth, not giving the green weeds a chance, killing the home of the fishes natural food, the invertebrates, so the fish have to rely on the anglers bait; which contain a lot of questionable ingredients from Third world countries, ie - fishmeals sourced from rivers with even higher levels of PCB's etc than our own.
These baits are also questioned by the scientists who created them, as being unsuitable for natural environments, because of the hormones, anti-bodies and chemicals used to produce excessive weight gain and not sexual reproduction. We campaign and seek to ban fish farmed food to eat, but turn a blind eye to the use of the same food used in that industry in our baits.
Sorry went slightly off piste, but the action required to improve the rivers, is the responsibility of us all. We can't just blame the water companies, we have to accept our own part in the problems too:mad:
 
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