Thanks Matt 🙏 But credit has to go to Anthony Wood, who had been reporting the leak for 18 months before he contacted us when Yorkshire Water refused to do anything about it.
Shareholders get huge dividends as Yorkshire Water and other Utilities fail to tackle leaks and allow raw sewage to enter our water courses and seas. Ofwat has approved further planning work on an environmentally damaging new reservoir in the Upper Derwent Valley to support "bulk transfer agreement from Severn Trent to Yorkshire Water" - how about fixing the leaks first so the environment can be protected?
I look forward to my Monday Tribune-usually stimulating and with some uplifting images on the usual dismal and cold day that we get this time of year.The excellent image of the castle site needs some detail as regards existant castle remains.Yorkshire Water deserve a wacking big fine over their waste of water and apparent confusion over what actually has been going off.Bit of a coup for the Tribune I would suggest.
Thanks Ron! Happy to include some more explanation of the castle site picture if you can provide it. And yes, hopefully the Yorkshire Water story will make an impact with both the regulators and the company. Thanks for reading, as always 🙏
Great article: it certainly delivered a punch to Yorkshire Water. The company deserves it. And all their advice on conserving water! The hypocrisy of that is egregious.
What I'd like to know is, when a water company is fined, who picks up the tab? The company executives, or the shareholders, or is it us, the users of the water and payers of the bills? Just asking 🤔
Thanks Ruth 🙏 In terms of payment, it should be the company (and therefore also the shareholders) who pay the fine but in practice, if any of the privatised utilities got in trouble, I think it would probably be taxpayers who were left to pick up the bill. Which is one of the problems with the system, I would say.
Well: exactly so. And your last sentence has to be a strong contender for understatement of the year. As I keep saying: why are we supporting company executives and shareholders when all they give us for our money is a rubbish water delivery and disposal system? If a rubbish system was what we wanted, we (in the shape of the previous nationalised industry) could have procured one at a fraction of the cost 😡
Quality reporting on the YW piece 👏
Thanks Matt 🙏 But credit has to go to Anthony Wood, who had been reporting the leak for 18 months before he contacted us when Yorkshire Water refused to do anything about it.
Shareholders get huge dividends as Yorkshire Water and other Utilities fail to tackle leaks and allow raw sewage to enter our water courses and seas. Ofwat has approved further planning work on an environmentally damaging new reservoir in the Upper Derwent Valley to support "bulk transfer agreement from Severn Trent to Yorkshire Water" - how about fixing the leaks first so the environment can be protected?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-63229627.amp
Completely agree Bob. How can we possibly give the go ahead to new or expanded reservoirs when we waste this much water?
I look forward to my Monday Tribune-usually stimulating and with some uplifting images on the usual dismal and cold day that we get this time of year.The excellent image of the castle site needs some detail as regards existant castle remains.Yorkshire Water deserve a wacking big fine over their waste of water and apparent confusion over what actually has been going off.Bit of a coup for the Tribune I would suggest.
Thanks Ron! Happy to include some more explanation of the castle site picture if you can provide it. And yes, hopefully the Yorkshire Water story will make an impact with both the regulators and the company. Thanks for reading, as always 🙏
Great article: it certainly delivered a punch to Yorkshire Water. The company deserves it. And all their advice on conserving water! The hypocrisy of that is egregious.
What I'd like to know is, when a water company is fined, who picks up the tab? The company executives, or the shareholders, or is it us, the users of the water and payers of the bills? Just asking 🤔
Thanks Ruth 🙏 In terms of payment, it should be the company (and therefore also the shareholders) who pay the fine but in practice, if any of the privatised utilities got in trouble, I think it would probably be taxpayers who were left to pick up the bill. Which is one of the problems with the system, I would say.
Well: exactly so. And your last sentence has to be a strong contender for understatement of the year. As I keep saying: why are we supporting company executives and shareholders when all they give us for our money is a rubbish water delivery and disposal system? If a rubbish system was what we wanted, we (in the shape of the previous nationalised industry) could have procured one at a fraction of the cost 😡