I read this news with something of a cynical eye to be honest.
It's election year, and this shower of shts in power now would sell their own grandmothers into Saudi servitude to try and stay in power. Lol, it is the same thing with the Tories every time the general election is imminent... become much harder on those areas of society that their core voters have already demonized (insert immigrants and the unemployed) and pick some other random causes of concern to lie about improving. Such as the state of our costal and inland waterways.
Maybe this is a marker that the UK government actually intends to take steps to improve the quality of our rivers.
I highly doubt it, they have let the water companies profits sky-rocket through increased discharges of untreated sewage, while 'claiming' that they're regulating them properly by levying fines that amount to a tenth of the money they made by dumping the sewage in the first place 😂
lol, before I left twitter I used to use the hashtag #torysewageparty where ever I could for these reasons.
I think all we can hope for is a targeted improvement to those new areas they have designated in the run up to the election. Although this would probably be a half measure, at least there would be some improvement 🤞
The only place I'll swim in the sea these days is off Anglesey from certain beaches where I know the current keeps any major sewage from polluting the waters 😬 which is kinda gutting as there is a fantastic beach much closer to Liverpool called Formby beach... but it is a risk to health to swim there😔
I hope you're well Karl 👍