Another success story for privatisation of key services 📉

more than half of all pollution incidents last year were caused by blockages or vandalism, which are not in the direct control of the water companies

They’ve owned the infrastructure for quite some time, I don’t think they get to claim innocence if the sewers aren’t able to handle blockages at such a rate that it’s common.

And I bet that the “vandalism” mention is just muddying the water (if you’ll forgive the pun) and hoping that nobody asks for figures.