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00:12It's water is a better deal than nationalized water, that the water privatization, I believe,
00:20will go very successfully. Indeed, that will go very successfully. Indeed. And perhaps
00:26therefore we have a better way to see, so that we can pontificate in the light of the facts.
00:53Lewis! Lewis! What did I tell you about that seaweed? Do not throw it!
01:03You hungry?
01:07Ice cream! No! No. We just got here, you wanna? Yeah, we'll get it on the way back to the
01:12shallot, all right? Yeah, we'll get it, we'll get it back. It's dead, isn't it? I do promise
01:16you. I will. I promise.
01:27Girls, wait, please. Heather, stop! What?
01:30Bloody hell.
01:33Heather, I told you to stop, didn't I?
01:36Do you think that's poo? Of course, it's not poo.
01:42It stinks.
01:43It wasn't poo.
01:46Don't come in. Don't come in like that.
01:49How far shall I go?
01:50Go as far as you can.
01:52All right, all right, all right.
01:55Wash it off, scrub it.
01:56You what?
01:57Scrub it.
01:58All right.
01:58Here, Heather.
01:59Have I got it?
02:00Don't you think...
02:02Donut, no.
02:03You what?
02:04Is it off her?
02:05Yeah, I think so.
02:06You're the donut.
02:06Get a towel.
02:07Here, get her dry.
02:08Me.
02:09There you go.
02:09We've got a smelly little mermaid.
02:11Still smells that.
02:14Is that ticklish?
02:15Yeah.
02:16Do the other one, about that one.
02:19No.
02:19No?
02:20Oh, look at that.
02:36I think it was quite remarkable, really,
02:38that with most of the fresh water fish,
02:41and England was just on the stretch most of us,
02:44including the chub.
02:46The chub came later, of course.
02:49They're gone.
02:50What?
02:51What, the chub?
02:51Well, the chub, the barbell, the eels, everything.
02:55Well, yes, I mean, the...
02:58The water's brown.
03:01You don't really think about the colour,
03:04um, when you see it every day.
03:08I mean, the brown here just seems normal.
03:11Yes.
03:12Would Eileen still do that water vole register?
03:15No.
03:16No.
03:17That's, uh...
03:17No, Van Dagon as well.
03:22I mean, I remember when I first came here,
03:26that it was crystalline, isn't it?
03:50You never talk about your work.
03:52Well, I'd often, you know...
03:54It's part of the training.
03:56It's not sort of, you know, dinner conversation.
03:58Well, you know...
03:58You're tired now.
03:59It's not like I'm a Russian spy, am I?
04:02It's not like I'm, you know, not working for Putin, am I?
04:05That makes me wonder now.
04:06Why would you say that?
04:07Well, that's a bit...
04:08You investigated Ben Coppers, wasn't it?
04:11Yeah, 25 years.
04:12Well, come on.
04:13But 25 years, you must have...
04:14You must have some stories, mustn't you?
04:17Not really.
04:19Why don't you have the game pie?
04:20I don't like game pie.
04:22Shall we get some mixed greens?
04:23No.
04:24I'm just having the soup and the crusty bread.
04:27That sounds nice...
04:30That's right, yes.
04:32There will have been some minor discolouration
04:36in one or two sections of the river.
04:39There's been a discharge from the Burford Works.
04:43A discharge?
04:44Discharge of what?
04:46Untreated sewage.
04:47Yeah.
04:48Legally, they're allowed to spill after heavy rainfall.
04:53So they can just do that, can't they?
04:56That's what you said.
04:57They're allowed to dump untreated sewage
05:01into the river right after heavy rain.
05:03But that can't be right,
05:05because it rains all the time.
05:07Well, heavy rain, he said.
05:08I don't remember any heavy rain, do you?
05:10I'm going to write to Thames Water
05:13and ask how many times they've put sewage into the river.
05:15Well, they're not going to tell you that.
05:17Oh, yeah, yeah, they've got to.
05:18What's the law?
05:20Dear Mr Smith,
05:21no untreated sewage has been discharged
05:24into the river Windrush
05:25for the past three years.
05:27Untreated sewage mixed with treated sewage
05:30has been discharged 240 times.
05:33Kind regards.
05:34When did that come in?
05:35When did it come in that you could put untreated sewage
05:39into the river per se?
05:40I don't see how putting any kind of pathogens into the river
05:45could possibly be allowed.
05:46I mean, people are swimming in there.
05:48Dear Mr Smith,
05:49in response to your request for information,
05:52please find attached the documents below.
05:54Kind regards.
05:56Wankers.
05:57This must be like one of your cases, mustn't it?
06:01All this.
06:02When you used to be a detective.
06:05No.
06:06But, you know, poisonous stuff in the river
06:09and we're not being warned about it?
06:11That'd be a scandal.
06:25It's a tummy bug.
06:2748 hour thing.
06:29Plenty of liquids.
06:30I'll give you some anti-sickness tablets
06:32just to stop the vomiting.
06:33Okay.
06:37Heather.
06:38How many was it?
06:39The doctor said you got to take your medicine now.
06:42See.
06:44Close your eyes if you want, ma'am.
06:46Yeah, keep them closed.
06:47There you go.
06:50Exactly.
06:51No, they said treated sewage mixed with untreated sewage
06:54240 times.
06:56Yeah.
07:10This is free jazz, is it?
07:12Oh, um, no, it's not free jazz.
07:14It's, uh, contemporary jazz.
07:16And so they like free jazz.
07:18Right.
07:19And people pay money to listen to them.
07:21She's just come round to piss me off.
07:24No.
07:25I'm gonna show you something.
07:26Look at this.
07:28So, uh, what is this?
07:29Uh, this is, uh, is this a reply from Thameswater?
07:32They're drowning me in numbers.
07:34Oh, I can see that.
07:35I mean, how are you supposed to make anything of that crap?
07:38Well, maybe, maybe that's what they're banking on.
07:40There's a needle in there somewhere.
07:41Just, you know, go through the haste act to find it.
07:44You're the Oxford professor of mathematics.
07:47No, uh, computational biology.
07:49It's not, um...
07:50Still math.
07:51It's not, it's machine learning, actually.
07:53So what's that like, AI?
07:55I know you're gonna take the piss, but it's, it's a bit like free jazz.
07:58Oh!
08:00Depressing and pointless.
08:01Uh, no.
08:02No.
08:02There's rules.
08:03So there's a kind of order beneath the, the chaos.
08:08Um, and you've gotta listen really hard, uh, for the patterns.
08:12Why don't you just email me these and I'll, I'll take a look.
08:39Fuck me.
08:47these what you've given me that they're flow numbers they track the sewage coming into the
08:52works and the rated which is treated so it's safe to go back into the river but there's something
08:59weird about this yeah well well here look now on the 27th of december the flow of treated effluent
09:10coming out of the works just stops it just stops completely right what do you mean it stops at the
09:16flow it just stops there's no there's no treated effluent going back into the river so two days
09:23after christmas the people of burford stopped going to the toilet no no see this is it because
09:29the raw sewage is still going into the works but there's nothing coming out
09:38now that's that's just not right so what do we do i don't know we go back to them and
09:45say give
09:45us a bit more detail is that ashley and peter yeah yes yes well thanks so much for taking my
09:51call
09:51it's commander a lot here the external affairs and sustainability at thames richard lovely to speak
09:58with you listen i thought well why not get on the old dog and bone well we appreciate your calling
10:02thank you not at all having our feet held to the fire like this is the thing that keeps us
10:06focused
10:06yeah we've um what we've been asking about this anomaly in the uh flow data um on on the 27th
10:13of
10:13december there's no treated effluent going back into the river yeah nobody seems to be able to explain
10:19why that is it's taken too long to get to the bottom of this i've had to put some rockets
10:24up a few
10:25jacks's frankly turns out the flow meters at burford were on the blink heavy rain uh the sewage flow was
10:35normal but the the sensors weren't generating any data uh safe to assume uh the people of burford did
10:43not stop discharging uh the measurements were temporarily interrupted it's weird and we'd like
10:53to invite you on uh a tour of the burford works it's it's just strange isn't it that um all
11:00of the
11:00sensors stopped working at that one point we can't think of any other explanation frankly but uh you know
11:06i won't be there regretting me but leonine will be there and you'll be a very good hat no of
11:11course
11:12we'd like to do more but the challenge is that burford sewers are basically victorian does anyone
11:18actually work here it's an unmanned facility it should be unpeopled really shouldn't it
11:25you have unpeopled works in victorian times
11:27good one no um but we do have a state-of-the-art network of senses which uh track all
11:34the treated fluid
11:35effluent through the works so um nobody nobody works here the sensors automatically transmit data
11:44to our waste operation control center in wedding 24 hours a day right oh that's what we call the
11:51telemetry and what happens if something breaks down oh so our works are serviced by a team of mobile
12:00engineers if a piece of kit malfunctions uh trigger will sensor an alarm and an engineer is dispatched
12:06within two hours all right oh in here is where the engineers log books live
12:15they uh keep a record of anything that happens in one of these but um stuff up here this is
12:20the
12:20really exciting part so this is all the live real-time data being uploaded from the plants
12:26yes i can see it's quite extensive isn't it you can see the information coming through can't you
12:34yeah it's funny because like you know all the data is being pumped out you can see it but actually
12:39no
12:39one's looking at it you could save a bit of electricity there couldn't you what's that over
12:44there you've got um cafe no that is our dedicated breakout zones you know for teas coffees relaxation
12:52um yeah any inviting inviting isn't it yeah no it's nice i like it it's just nobody's here to enjoy
12:59the tea oh no no well thank god that would mean something's going wrong all right thank you great
13:07yeah great oh sorry there's a hole there did anyone mention that we've been invited to the town hall
13:13in burford the commander wants us all there it's really exciting actually you know we think it's
13:18important that we hold our hands up when mistakes are made
13:25god did you see see her face like a huge deal like
13:32i can't believe it and we can ask for all the telemetry you know they've got to give it to
13:37us
13:37that's that's hundreds of thousands of data points and everything that goes on in the works
13:43right right just try not to get too excited well i'm just saying i'm just saying calm down
13:55okay have you been giving her plenty of liquids yes yeah been keeping her warm
14:00yes did everything you said okay and are there any more symptoms yes
14:07she's been bleeding from her backside doctor i'm calling an ambulance
14:16so look i've got the telemetry for burford and i've deciphered the engineer's handwriting
14:23the 27th of december engineer's name is michael lazarus
14:31it turns out here that at eight minutes past five on the morning of the 27th the alarm got
14:38triggered at the works and the communications had failed but it must have been intermittent
14:45because at eight minutes past six the center got a message to say that both the main inlet pumps
14:52had failed
14:56then at 16 minutes past eight another alarm was triggered the storm tank was overflowing
15:05and that's when the dumping started
15:09so the pumps have packed up the storm tanks overflowing you've got three alarms sounding
15:15obviously they dispatched an engineer
15:19not for five and a half hours
15:25wet pumps one and two both failed return liquor pump failed balancing tank
15:31full untreated sewage tank full effluent chamber flooded
15:37i don't need this
15:44storm tanks filled to the top all the sewage is flushing into the river
15:58set return liquor pump reset might fail again
16:04but the hull is just gonna hold
16:07trying my best here
16:10everything's failing he did what he could to patch things up
16:13but by then it's been dumping sewage into the wind rush for over five hours
16:19yeah and we know we know that there wasn't any heavy rainfall like aylard said because
16:25it didn't even rain on that day yeah and then the oxidation tank failed on the 28th
16:31the rotation arms packed up on the 29th burford was falling apart
16:37they couldn't handle all the sewage it was taken in so it was just flushing
16:41everything into the river and i i feel that mickey's the kind of person
16:45who's in the habit of telling the truth don't you yeah what about commander aylard
17:01the results are back from the lab
17:03it's quite serious heather has been infected with e coli
17:10the most aggressive strain 0157
17:17we're going to keep her comfortable keep an eye on her and hope that it passes through
17:21do you sleep no it's possible that the virus could attack heather's kidney functions
17:28which might have serious consequences for other organs
17:40this was really about a temporary malfunction to the alarm we think at least partly caused by the heavy
17:47rainfall that day rather than any actual interruption to the treatment process so what i'd like to do
17:54sorry can i um can i say a few words commander yes of course there was no heavy rain um
18:02in fact um didn't rain at all if you'll uh bear with me what what i have here is uh
18:11the engineer's log books the engineer is called michael lazarus and what you can see from mr lazarus's
18:18logs is that the alarms were in fact uh functioning as normal they were triggered as soon as the
18:27flooding began and the thing is mr lazarus was not dispatched to the works for more than five hours
18:34the plant was falling apart it couldn't treat the sewage it was taking in
18:38and so it was just pumping it all out directly into the river
18:47well um thanks so much ash and to you peter it does look as though i've been misinformed
18:55and i intend to get to the bottom of this and i'll be putting my thumb on whoever so what
19:02are you going
19:02to do about what these two gentlemen have said what's going to happen now i think that we are both
19:07shocked absolutely shocked to hear that information because you've said one thing they've actually
19:14backed up with evidence something completely the opposite our river you're just dumping in and just
19:21covering everything up and making money and what's the long-term problems for the wildlife the fish and
19:28birds what's happening with those the ecological welfare of our rivers and our waterways is something
19:34that we find incredible and what are you doing so that's nothing you're you're polluting our water
19:41i wouldn't even let my dog scream in the river now it's disgusting it is our highest highest priority
19:47that we will be fixing this as soon as possible i can assure you from all of us at thames
19:52water we are
19:53working night and day right well i think we need to have a deep breath i do i do as
19:58well thank you sir
19:59thank you for thank you thank you thank you very much thank you shall we go outside
20:06yes i think he just lied to us just straight up and down took to our faces oh no he
20:12said he was
20:13misinformed princess diane's equerry i mean what is that by the way i don't know it helps when people
20:21lie it's how you know they've got something to hide i mean it's it's ammonia we need to keep an
20:43eye
20:43that's going to read high right after they've dumped the sewage
20:47fuck me it's it's it is actually like one of your cases isn't it not really no it's more
20:54real-time monitoring of the river and the outflow pipes as well so the question is
21:03is burford acting alone because there's what seven seven seven uh works along the windrush
21:12so we need to know if burford is an outlier you know single failing plant like a lone assassin just
21:19you know killing everything that lives in the water or or are they more like burford well i mean i
21:25suppose i could order that order the telemetry and get it for all of them
21:37dear eir team i would be grateful if you could supply
21:43all the telemetry exchanges between the control center and the works at north leach church hambrough
21:53whitney and
22:06i can't find a pulse
22:13is there nothing that's weird
22:23no i can't feel anything no somebody call for help get help no can we get a doctor in here
22:29please
22:36what have you done to your finger oh i don't know
22:41i woke up this morning it was like that feels a bit weird
22:44well do you think that jala should take a look at that i mean she's she's a chemist isn't she
22:48i know she's a chemist i live with her okay so you know that they sent me all these
22:52uh data flows from the works at whitney and at church hanborough yeah but what i've done i've
22:57converted the program that i built for the fetal uh alcohol kids
23:07what happened there was that the mothers they were being paid in wine so most of their children
23:12had fetal alcohol syndrome what i did was that i took i took thousands of photographs of these fas
23:21kids kids and so by showing the machine hundreds of these faces of these unborn children we taught
23:29it to spot the features of fetal alcohol syndrome in the womb
23:41so when the program sees it's in a scan then it can tell the doctor straight away and then they
23:47can
23:47start you know helping the mother and the kid
23:53now burford does most of his heavy lifting during early morning just before everyone goes to work
23:58right and and then again in the evening when they come back home so you can see the uh flows
24:05of
24:06treated effluent hitting uh the daily peaks and troughs now that that's when the penny dropped
24:11the thing is that is just like the contours on a baby's face by showing the machine nine years of
24:22this flow data i've taught it to recognize when the the usual flows they don't they don't show up
24:31when the everyday flows are missing well they're not treating the sewage and if they're not treating the
24:38sewage there's nowhere for it to go except in into the river except into the river
25:05we've decided to transfer heather to the bristol hospital for children
25:11it's one of the best in the country they'll be able to look after her there it's getting bigger
25:17i think have you been in the river again yeah yeah did you have any cuts yeah yeah i pricked
25:26my finger
25:26on a thorn when i was setting up the camera before after you went into the river before right
25:34so if there's a pathogen in the water you've given it direct entry into your bloodstream
25:43is that bad it's bad you muppet you need antibiotics you know a lot of sewage has drugs in it
25:51and
25:52if they mix with bacteria then the bacteria becomes antibiotic resistant which means that the
26:01antibiotics might not work on you so they might have to try different types of medication on it
26:07ah god hold on
26:13what's that what are you doing i'm just drawing on you why because if it if it gets bigger then
26:20we will
26:21know that looks worse now so that's where she drew the marker and that's how much bigger it's got
26:29in like two days bloody hell and that is just from putting your hand in the river yep i'm an
26:35idiot
26:36we know that but i mean if it's doing that to your hand just just think about what it's doing
26:41to all
26:41the creatures that live in the river exactly what was it you wanted to show me oh yeah well you
26:46know
26:46i've got all this data through from uh north leach you know are we onto the wheat chief there oh
26:51yeah
26:52that was overpriced for what it was well i mean you you thought so but anyway look they must have
26:57sent this by mistake because i'm pretty sure they haven't read it why why do you say that because
27:02it says here that the works at north leach they haven't treated any sewage for three and a half months
27:09so so either either the good people of northridge have been holding it in for three and a half months
27:15sold now i know they did not do that because i have the log books and north leach is on
27:23michael lazarus's
27:24i think i fucking hate my life
27:34fuck
27:38site flooded due to come failure
27:43site flooded for the fifth day running storm tank high alarm sounding for nearly 48 hours now
27:50storm pump failure alarm sounding for nearly four days all four fire filters not rotating no flow
27:58coming into the works power surges have badly affected all equipment on site serious plant failure
28:08generator not running ran in to get the site going
28:25it's completely full site still heavily flooded
28:30pumping sludge water out onto stormland roadside flooding believed to have been caused by this
28:38oh
28:39oh
28:40fuck off
28:42oh
28:43for
28:43fuck's sake
28:52yeah liam
28:53yeah listen mate i'm at north leach
28:56power's gone mate power's packed up generator's gone
29:00mate it's gone we can't treat sewage without any power
29:04we're either backing up or we're dumping it straight into the river
29:09oh and liam mate there's sewage coming up from the ground
29:29thames's own data shows north leach hasn't treated any sewage for three and a half months
29:34yeah so look there's two works within a few miles of each other both rotting into the sludge both
29:44dumping illegally we've got to get this to the environment agency
29:48they've got prosecuting powers what do you mean well they don't have to show their evidence to the
29:52police these are crimes and they can prosecute privately
29:57well so they can just just take temps to court yes they're the sewage police
30:03wow uh like can anyone else do that post office the post office that's unusual
30:11i can see that your swelling's gone down yeah yeah the antibiotics are kicking in
30:17thank god and it's about keeping us a little bit more local
30:23so i'm just going to fold this up actually
30:28we want to strip out as much unnecessary regulation as possible so under operator self-monitoring we're
30:38going to be asking the water companies to monitor their own environmental performance
30:44flagging any breaches to us as a priority i um sorry i don't understand so um you you want water
30:53companies to monitor their own pollution yeah it's about shifting the burden of regulation onto the
31:00companies and asking the water companies if there's been a pollution to give us the details
31:08uh hang on hang on just just to be clear you want us to ask the water companies to tell
31:18us when they've
31:19dumped sewage it's about pivoting away from away from on-site inspections to a more desk-based approach
31:30yeah it's it's sort of streamlining our process so you want us to stop visiting sewage works no no no
31:37no we'll still be doing on-site inspections yeah of course um provided that we give the company two
31:43weeks notice of our visit yeah but that's a problem that is a problem because well sorry again yeah um
31:49but if we give the water companies two weeks notice yeah they'll just clean up before we get there
31:54yeah i mean it's it it is an honor system so i if the company say that there hasn't been
32:00an incident i i don't think we should go looking for reasons to challenge that so what you're saying
32:07is regulate yourselves and then just let us know if you've committed any crimes
32:18yeah thanks so much okay see you
32:26thank you
32:27to julia simpson area director environment agency dear julia i live in oxfordshire near the river
32:34windrush my neighbor professor peter hammond and i have been gathering evidence of sewage discharges
32:41into our river by thames water we'd like to bring what we've learned to the attention of the environment
32:46agency dear julia we'd like to invite you to meet some members of our group to discuss
32:52issues of sewage pollution dear julia we are going to take a trip down the river on foot and by
32:58boat
32:59looking at possible sources of sewage pollution would the environment agency be interested dear julia
33:05we are still waiting for a suitable point of contact
33:13dear ashley the department for the environment will provide you with a full response by the 8th of
33:19june 2018. she's got an mbe and a bloody big salmon
33:27why is she taking so long to get back to us doesn't she realize we're doing her job for her
33:32well i don't know i might put in a complaint
33:39so
33:49okay
33:52so
34:19Hello, love.
34:20Mr Smith, it's Julia Simpson from the Environment Agency.
34:23I'm so sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you.
34:26Honestly, waiting for DEFRA, it is maddening.
34:29Well, we've found each other now.
34:31We wanted to ask about how the agency monitors sewage dumps
34:37into the river.
34:39Spills, yes.
34:41Well, as you probably know, we manage operator self-monitoring.
34:46Operator self-monitoring? What's that?
34:48Yes, it's for Thames Water to report any potential breaches.
34:52You mean it's Thames' job to tell you when they've dumped sewage?
34:58To report potential pollution incidents, yes.
35:02And what if they don't report them?
35:03We would expect Thames to report 100% of pollution incidents.
35:07So, it's not even your responsibility to inspect the works?
35:15Well, to see if they're working?
35:19Well, no, absolutely.
35:21We inspect the treatment works.
35:23Yes, of course we do.
35:24How often?
35:25Well, we would inspect perhaps once every few days,
35:29up to perhaps once every six months,
35:32depending on the inspection team's judgment.
35:35Ash, we're aware that there's been some discussion locally
35:39around water quality on the Windrush.
35:41And in fact, we've just completed a new survey.
35:44So, I was thinking it would be a good idea for me to take up your invitation,
35:49come down to the village hall and to go over some of the results.
35:53So, the good news is that our testing shows that there's no evidence
35:59that the Windrush is seriously polluted,
36:02or that the quality of the water has declined.
36:05We do know that the river is more brown these days,
36:08but our evidence has shown that this brown colour
36:11has got nothing to do with sewage.
36:14Er...
36:16Sorry, we've spoken earlier on the telephone.
36:19I wonder if you could confirm something you told me then,
36:21that the agency inspects all the works along the Windrush
36:26between every two to three days and every six months.
36:29Yes, that's right.
36:31Professor Peter Hammond, and I'm also part of this Windrush group,
36:36a colleague of yours told me that actually,
36:39you only inspect once every eight years.
36:43And also, I've just been...
36:44Listen, listen.
36:45I've been running your figures,
36:49and so you've only done about half of the inspections
36:53that you needed to have been doing.
36:55In fact, you've only been visiting the works once...
36:59Well, every 16, yes.
37:01We also took a look at your water quality tests.
37:05And the thing is, they were all carried out upstream
37:09from all the major sewage works.
37:11It's almost as if you've chosen the cleanest part of the river
37:14to conduct your tests.
37:17The river is actually devoid of anything in there.
37:21The fish and all the wildfire and everything that reads on from that,
37:26from your kingfishers to everything.
37:28You've absolutely ruined this place,
37:31and you should be bloody well ashamed of yourselves.
37:38And the watercress beds.
37:40You destroyed the watercress beds as well.
37:43That used to be a source of industry years ago.
37:45Totally gone.
37:46We will be taking all your feedback into consideration.
37:50I will have to go away,
37:52and we will listen to your feedback.
37:56I promise you.
37:57No way.
37:57We will.
37:59Oh, thank you.
38:00Oh, thank you.
38:21Er, is it Mr. Lazarus?
38:25My name's Ash Smith. This is my colleague, Professor Peter Hammond.
38:29We're doing some research on Thames Water.
38:31And, er, listen, it's all off the record.
38:35We're not disclosing the names of anyone we talked to.
38:38We wondered if you could spare ten minutes.
38:50People call me Mickey, first of all.
38:51Thank you very much for coming here. I know it's not easy, so...
38:54We appreciate it so much, I can't tell you.
38:56I'm not a grass, OK?
38:58So, I did grass on my mate, like, in Year 8, back in the day,
39:01but this is different from grassing, right?
39:03This is like blowing the whistle.
39:04I told you I'm an ex-copper. Yeah.
39:06You told me that as well, that's made me nervous.
39:07This is not...
39:08Grassing is like when you grass on your mates,
39:10and blowing the whistle...
39:12Whistle blowing is when you, like, grass on your boss.
39:14Right.
39:16We've got to start.
39:17Um, all right, check this out.
39:21Most water companies get sold every ten years or so.
39:24JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley.
39:27Kuwait Sovereign Fund.
39:30Chinese banks, we've had them all, mate.
39:38So, um, Macquarie bought us in 2006.
39:41That's the...
39:42That's the Australian hedge fund.
39:45It's known as the millionaire's factory.
39:47Such are the reputed riches of many of Macquarie's key executives.
39:50The vampire kangaroo.
39:52That's it.
39:52And they've earned that name because they are bloodsuckers.
39:54Leading companies rely on Macquarie for advice, access to capital.
39:58First thing they did was sell our offices and then rent them back to us.
40:03What?
40:04Wrong-uns.
40:05They make Del Boy do like a fucking amateur.
40:07Then they said that we had to get management clearance to buy pens.
40:13Right in the top to buy a biro.
40:15Not even a Parker, not a fancy pen, just a normal pen.
40:18Piss take, all right?
40:19Now, let's say this.
40:20Right.
40:21A pipe's broken.
40:22What you do normally, you take it out, you put a new one in.
40:25They would tell us to stick a collar around it.
40:28It's not gonna hold.
40:29What's a collar?
40:30It's just like sticking plaster.
40:31It's not gonna hold.
40:32It's a temporary fix.
40:33The pipe's still rotten, okay?
40:35It's gonna go again.
40:36It's a botch job.
40:37It's like Frankenstein.
40:38Why don't they want to do it properly?
40:40Why don't they want to spend money and seal it properly?
40:43They don't give up monkeys about the works.
40:45You know why?
40:46Because they're gonna flip you.
40:47If they don't want to spend any money on it,
40:50how are they going to maintain your works?
40:52They don't give a shit.
40:54You know why?
40:54They're like dodgy house flippers.
40:56They're gonna go in there, it's still rotten inside,
40:58and they flip it, they're out.
41:00That's why I bang for Macquarie.
41:03Macquarie, when they flogged us,
41:05they walked away with around 2.8 billion quid.
41:09It's scandalous.
41:12So, how do you know all this then, Mickey?
41:14I started working for Thames when I was 16, right?
41:17On my second day, I joined the union.
41:20I get people ringing me up every day.
41:22Mickey, it's all falling apart.
41:24We can't keep it going.
41:26Pete, if you were there working there,
41:28you were an engineer, you know,
41:30and the pumps ain't working, you're at capacity,
41:32what's your best option?
41:33Well, the best option, obviously,
41:35is just to get rid of the sewage, I suppose.
41:38The only option is to press the button that flushes it all out.
41:45I'm not proud to admit that.
41:47And I feel guilty, you know?
41:49I see people swimming in these rivers
41:52and letting their kids swim in the rivers.
41:54What am I supposed to do? I know what goes in there.
41:56I'll put it in there.
41:58We're at tipping point here, fellas.
42:04So we have run the brain tests.
42:07Heather's brain has lost the ability to control her vital organs
42:11and, unfortunately, they are failing.
42:15I'm really very sorry.
42:18But I think it's time we consider turning off her ventilators.
42:42This is my VT Network.
42:44Bye.
42:46Bye.
42:51Let's go, bye.
42:52Bye, bye, bye.
42:52Bye.
42:52Bye.
42:52Bye, bye.
42:56Bye.
42:57Bye, bye.
43:08Dear Professor Hammond,
43:11I'm a member of Citizens Against Southwest Water.
43:14We formed a year ago to fight the company's sewage dumping in our bit of Devon.
43:20One of our group was recently given these, which we thought you should see.
43:29A girl of eight may have been the first person in Britain to have contacted fatal E. coli poisoning from
43:37raw sewage.
43:38Ten other people, including four children, who all visited the beach on July the 28th,
43:45were also struck down by the same bacterial strain.
43:52Athebrine died of E. coli.
44:03If you'd like, we could bring her over to you.
44:10Here we go.
44:13All right.
44:14All right.
44:17I'll just leave you together for a little while now, okay?
44:25All right, mother.
44:39You're all right.
44:42You're all right.
44:56You're all right.
44:57It's all right.
44:57Okay.
44:58Yeah.
44:59There we go.
45:00All right.
45:02Here we go.
45:04Be careful about it.
45:05It's okay.
45:06I'm sorry.
45:06We're fine.
45:07Come on.
45:07Yes.
45:41You're so sorry about getting in.
45:54All right then, let me see.
46:09So, you know how I taught the machine to look for the anomalies in Whitney and Churchhamborough?
46:17Yeah, right.
46:17Well, have you been free-jazzin' your numbers again?
46:20Well, it's actually a lot of hard work, you know.
46:22Oh, no, sorry.
46:23Just looking for the patterns and spotting the deviations.
46:26Yeah, right.
46:27And you know that, you do know that when the machine sees an abnormality, it can only mean
46:33one thing, that it's dumping sewage.
46:35Yes.
46:36Okay, so in the nine years that I have data for, these two works alone, Whitney and Churchhamborough,
46:44they've dumped sewage a thousand times.
46:51These aren't accidents, Ash.
46:54It's a policy.
46:59This is starting to look like organised crime.
47:12Oh, fuck.
47:14No, this isn't right.
47:16That's .
47:19No, this ain't right.
47:21That's pure sewage.
47:23You say you've got insufficient evidence, but we keep giving you the evidence.
47:27All we ever do is give you the evidence.
47:29If you don't know what caused the infection, then you need to shut down the beach.
47:33That's not gonna happen.
47:34I wonder if we should be calling it an outbreak.
47:36I feel like the kind of term that could alarm people.
47:38We are conducting an investigation under section 108 of the environmental law.
47:43Close the beach before this happens to somebody else.
47:46With their kids, with fishing nets, sitting amongst turds.
47:50Reuben!
47:54Reuben!
47:56We need another whistleblower.
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