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Dirty Business Episode 2 with English Subtitles
In Episode 2, the battle for control intensifies as alliances begin to shift and hidden agendas come to light. As ambition drives each move, the line between loyalty and betrayal becomes dangerously thin.
With gripping tension, corporate intrigue, and unexpected twists, this episode dives deeper into a world where every decision has consequences.
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Dirty Business Episode 2 with English Subtitles
In Episode 2, the battle for control intensifies as alliances begin to shift and hidden agendas come to light. As ambition drives each move, the line between loyalty and betrayal becomes dangerously thin.
With gripping tension, corporate intrigue, and unexpected twists, this episode dives deeper into a world where every decision has consequences.
Watch Dirty Business Episode 2 in HD with English Subtitles.
#DirtyBusiness #Episode2 #DramaThriller #EnglishSubtitles #FullHD #WatchOnline #Streaming #CorporateDrama #Suspense #Entertainment
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00:17They're allowed to dump untreated sewage, but that can't be right.
00:22There's something weird about this.
00:24Do you think that's poo?
00:25Of course it's not poo.
00:27Wash it up, scrubby.
00:28Heather's brain has lost the ability to control her vital organs.
00:31I think it's time we consider turning off her ventilators.
00:34We've got to get this to the Environment Agency. They're the sewage police.
00:37We want to strip out as much unnecessary regulation as possible.
00:42They make Delboy look like a f***ing amateur.
00:44When the everyday flows are missing, they're not treating the sewage.
00:48And if they're not treating the sewage, there's nowhere for it to go.
00:51Except into the river.
00:52Regulate yourselves, and then just let us know if you've committed any crimes.
00:56They've dumped sewage a thousand times.
00:59These aren't accidents.
01:01It's a policy.
01:02This is starting to look like organised crime.
01:08It's only now that it's coming to light.
01:10Thank goodness for the people's regulator, Peter Abbott.
01:13Thank goodness for Ash.
01:15Thank goodness for the public who are standing up and showing you what's really going on.
01:26Hi, Amy Christophers, Citizens Against Southwest Water.
01:32When Peter decoded these spreadsheets, we realised that the company had been dumping sewage into our river for years.
01:45Me and the machines, we are now investigating hundreds, hundreds of these sewage works using the data from each one
01:56of them.
01:58You know they've got to go down to, um, Whitstable this weekend.
02:02What, Saturday?
02:03Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:06They've got these two people that have been working at the agency.
02:08It says that the Southern Water solicitors have been threatening them.
02:15What do you know about Charles and Camilla?
02:17Charles and Camilla were coming down for the Whitstable Oyster Festival, right?
02:23When they tested them, they were so full of shit, they had to give them oysters imported from France.
02:28All over the local news.
02:30Whitstable's oysters under threat from sewage leaks.
02:34Sewage spills threaten to wipe out Whitstable's oyster farmers.
02:37People were very fucked off.
02:41Look at the amount of...
02:44Effort.
02:46So, Southern Water, you're not releasing sewerage into the sea.
02:50By then, the Environment Agency had no choice.
02:53They had to launch an investigation.
02:55Made a mistake putting us in charge.
02:56We're the ones in the trenches.
02:58We take things seriously, there are still a few of us left.
03:01But we had no clue what we were letting ourselves in for, did we?
03:03Right.
03:04Yeah.
03:05We done.
03:06Pull my back out this morning.
03:08Hello?
03:10Hello, it's John Bull from the Environment Agency.
03:12We've got an appointment?
03:13Tell them I'm waving.
03:15Tell them I'm waving.
03:18Begah, go on.
03:19Go on.
03:19Right.
03:20Jump up and down.
03:20Alright, that's it.
03:21I'm not...
03:21Honestly, I can't stand up for too long today.
03:24Sit down, mate.
03:24We know you're in there.
03:25We are not leaving.
03:26We have an appointment.
03:28It's now...
03:29Cheese mayo spring onion.
03:31This looks like one word, then.
03:35Press one to speak to no one.
03:37Press two...
03:38To speak to no one.
03:39To speak to no one.
03:40Press three...
03:42To give up all hope.
03:44Same bollocks every works we went.
03:46Chichester.
03:47Millbrook.
03:48Slow Hill.
03:48Fullham.
03:50So many times just refusing us entry.
03:52Sometimes we just snatch the load books right out of our hands.
03:55We'll just tell us to fuck off.
03:57When you get chicken from a supermarket, it's got the plastic covering on, right?
04:01Yeah.
04:02Lift that off.
04:03Leave it for a few minutes because it automatically smells of fish.
04:07People get scared, think they're going to get food poisoning.
04:09That's when they throw it away.
04:10But if you leave it for a bit, let the air come out, right?
04:12No.
04:13It just smells of chicken.
04:14Then you can cook it.
04:14Come on.
04:17Hiya.
04:18Miss Humphries.
04:20Yeah?
04:20Yeah, well...
04:22We've made an appointment.
04:23Oh, sorry.
04:24Is that you guys?
04:25Yeah.
04:25Yeah, we've been here for a while.
04:26We've been buzzing.
04:28We're at 9.15.
04:29Come on.
04:29Oh, 9.15.
04:31Yes, 9.
04:32As opposed to...
04:343.15.
04:35Yeah.
04:35Can we just get in there, please?
04:36Can you buzz us in?
04:37He's got a bad back.
04:38Come on.
04:39Oh, my God.
04:41What?
04:42Is your buzzer broken?
04:43No.
04:43Have you worked there long?
04:46Er...
04:47I wouldn't say long.
04:49Yeah.
04:50There's two really nice stools you can sit on.
04:54So...
04:55Poppy, can I just ask, these are the engineers logbooks, right?
04:58Yeah, I think they go back, like, ten years.
05:01So, how much do you read?
05:04Erm, we've got enough to be getting home with.
05:06Alright?
05:06We'll give you a shout-out if we need you, is that alright?
05:08Yeah.
05:09Good.
05:10Great.
05:10Do you want me to go?
05:11Yeah.
05:12Erm...
05:12Storm turned full.
05:13Yeah.
05:14Storm sunk, I will flow.
05:15They've had to triple reset.
05:18Brilliant.
05:18You've got nothing there, right?
05:20What, on the status record?
05:20Yeah.
05:21But on these status record books, it's 12 as well.
05:23Mr. Paul, David Marwood, Southern Water.
05:26Oh, good to meet you.
05:27Nice to meet you, Alex.
05:27Nice to meet you.
05:28I am gonna have to ask you to hand back these logbooks, please.
05:31Erm, they are proprietary material.
05:34Sorry, I don't...
05:35I...
05:35These books, they are the property of Southern Water.
05:38The engineer logbooks, yeah.
05:40You have gained access to them unlawfully.
05:42Erm, no.
05:42I'm asking you to hand them back.
05:44Unlawfully?
05:44These are the property of Southern Water.
05:47You gaining access to them is illegal.
05:49If you just hand it over...
05:50No one wants to...
05:50Sorry, sorry.
05:52What we're doing...
05:53Mr. Marwood, we are conducting an investigation under section 108 of the environmental law.
06:09What you're doing is unlawful.
06:11Please leave.
06:13Let's just go.
06:14Let's just go.
06:17We'll be back, Mr. Marwood.
06:20Sandwiches.
06:25Criminal offence.
06:26No.
06:27No.
06:28No.
06:28No.
06:28No, it took us seven years.
06:31Seven years.
06:33We need some in the end.
06:35Southern Water has been sentenced to pay a record £90 million fine after pleading guilty...
06:41They pled guilty to 6,971 crimes, composed of 51 counts.
06:46First day.
06:47Each dump is punishable by five years in prison.
06:51But instead, the judge just fined them.
06:53£90 million.
06:54Of course they're doing business.
06:55They dumped 7,400 Olympic swimming pools of raw shite.
07:00With the knowledge of the board.
07:02They were making so much money.
07:04These fines weren't touching the sides.
07:06But this time they were committed to a culture change.
07:09Which is why Toby Willison came in.
07:11Who's Toby Willison?
07:13Oh, you don't know about Toby Willison?
07:17So, Toby was number two in the Environment Agency under Sir James.
07:21But that Southern poached him a year before they were sentenced.
07:25They told the judge that he was going to run a clean-up operation within the company.
07:29He saw that as a mitigating factor.
07:32Reducing the fine from £120 million to £90 million.
07:36Sorry.
07:36You hire the second most senior person at the regulator who is actually prosecuting you.
07:43And you get a £30 million discount on your fine.
07:47But that isn't...
07:49I mean, that's corruption, isn't it?
07:51Well, we can see how it might have the appearance of corruption, but it wasn't.
07:56You see, there's a revolving door.
07:58People leave the agency and go and work for the companies they're regulating all the time.
08:02It's just the way the industry works.
08:05When the agency brought the case against Southern, was this Toby Willison in charge?
08:10What?
08:11We know he was acting chief exec at some point.
08:13Was he deciding who you guys were going to prosecute?
08:18We didn't prosecute any water company execs.
08:21We never have.
08:24You and I can probably remember as kids swimming in the sea and being surrounded by floating
08:33faecal material.
08:34I've certainly experienced that now, not as kids.
08:37You look at the quality of our bathing waters now and it is unrecognisable from 20-25
08:43years ago.
08:44That is a direct result of the massive amount of investment the water companies have put
08:50into the networks.
08:53Remarkable.
08:53Well, I don't believe any of that.
08:54Well, James Murray joins us now.
08:55You're not going to believe this one.
08:58Toby...
08:58Willison.
08:59Yeah, what about him?
09:00You know the lobby group funded by the water companies?
09:03Yeah.
09:04Willison has been on their board since 2019.
09:07You mean after he went to Southern Water?
09:08No, no, no, no, no, no.
09:10He's been on the board of British water while he was working for the agency.
09:14That means that the number two of the environment agency is at a side hustle working for the
09:18water companies.
09:22Well, water quality is now better than that any time since the industrial revolution,
09:27thanks to tough regulations by the environment.
09:30So this is Toby Willison's boss, is it?
09:32Yeah.
09:33He's at the very, very top.
09:35Liz Truss was the environment minister and she made him head of the environment agency.
09:39I don't know why she chose him.
09:41She seems to think the environment agency is part of the deep state.
09:45That's because the environment agency will not...
09:47What?
09:47...hesitate to go after water companies who cause serious pollution...
09:50But he's at the very top, isn't it?
09:52He's the one we need to get to.
09:53He's our man.
10:03The agency said that she could have contracted E. coli from dog poo.
10:08The little guy who died?
10:09Mm.
10:10I've been looking for another case where my dog feces has triggered an E. coli.
10:15And you can't find one?
10:16Right now.
10:17No, I...
10:18But there aren't any.
10:22Hi, is that Julie?
10:24Hi, this is Chris Hines.
10:27Yes, I work for an organization called Surfers Against Sewage.
10:31Listen, Julie, I'm down at the beach at Dawledge Warwick.
10:35I think we really need to speak.
10:37Now I've always been a surfer.
10:39I moved to Cornwall when I was 19, lived in a caravan, just so I could surf every day.
10:45But everyone was getting sick all the time.
10:47There was this one day when I came up under this huge wave.
10:50I found a sanitary towel stuck to the back of my head and a turd lodged between my chest and
10:56the board.
10:56I thought, this has got to stop.
10:58So we founded Surfers Against Sewage in my caravan.
11:01And it was not long after that that we all went to Parliament in our wetsuits.
11:06We were trying to get the message out about clean water and we didn't do a good enough job.
11:10I picked Dawlish because it had a blue flag.
11:14Of course you did.
11:15Because the blue flag is the gold standard for water quality.
11:18It's meant to mean that the water's clean.
11:20The council, they've set up an investigation team.
11:24If it finds that sewage killed Heather, it's going to be a calamity for business here.
11:29My guess is they're going to be looking for any explanation so long as it's not sewage.
11:35Thanks all for being here at this start-up meeting for the outbreak investigation team.
11:40Sorry, I wonder if we should be calling it an outbreak.
11:44Feels like the kind of term that could alarm people.
11:46I think cluster might be better messaging.
11:49Of course the quality of the bathing water at Dawlish is consistently high.
11:52That's a really good point, I mean that will be reflected in the report.
11:55We know there have been some complaints about sewage on the beaches.
11:59Oh, thanks Sarah, that's right.
12:01We were contacted by members of the public about this and we did send inspectors out.
12:06In the event, there had been just a single spill on July 24th.
12:09A full four days before the preens visited the beach.
12:12That's very unlikely that the spill could have had an impact.
12:15And we know that although the preens went to the beach on several occasions, Heather never swam in the water.
12:21So with sewage looking unlikely as a corporate, we're focusing on fast food and dog faeces.
12:28Mr and Mrs Preen?
12:31We were so sorry to hear about Heather.
12:35Yeah, it must be such a difficult time.
12:38But we just need to ask you a few questions.
12:40Could I ask you about the fast food your family's been eating since you got to Dawlish?
12:45Do you want to know what we had to eat?
12:47Any takeaways? Burgers?
12:49No, we ate in the shadow.
12:50Chicken shops, chippies, any fast food at all?
12:53No, we didn't have any burgers, we didn't have any fast food to be honest.
12:56We were on a bit of a budget, so...
12:58When you went to the beach, how much dog poo did you see?
13:01We didn't see any dog droppings, we saw human sewage.
13:05So why do you want to know about dog poo?
13:07Because if Heather had stepped in something, she'd have told us.
13:09We have to look into every possible source.
13:15So, if you don't know what caused the infection, then you need to shut down the beach, don't you?
13:21Because other children could get this, but my daughter's dead, so you need to shut it down.
13:26That's not going to happen.
13:28After the investigation, there's going to be an inquest.
13:32I can get you a lawyer.
13:35There was an unplanned negligible spill on the 24th, four days before the preens visited the beach.
13:42The Dawlish Coast is a high dispersal area.
13:45The winds and currents are sufficiently strong that any sewage would have been dispersed long before the preens visited the
13:51beach.
13:51E. coli 0157 is not routinely found in sewage, and it's rare in water.
13:56The sea breaks down the bacteria, so there's no record of an E. coli 0157 infection from sea bathing in
14:04the UK.
14:04What kind of health risk would sewage on a footpath present?
14:08It's not for the Environment Agency to comment on a health risk.
14:14You don't have a view about whether sewage is a health risk?
14:18It's not within the remit or the expertise of the Environment Agency to comment on a public health risk.
14:29We walked along the coastal path every day.
14:33There was a discharge coming out from the pipe, and it made a puddle, you see.
14:41How big was the puddle?
14:44I don't know, three feet maybe.
14:47And it was spilling out onto the beach.
14:51It smelt like feces.
14:55And I could see there was a little bit of some pink toilet paper in it.
15:02So you walked around it?
15:04No, we jumped over it.
15:10Except, um...
15:11Heather didn't manage to clear it, and, um...
15:17She landed in the puddle that was coming from the pipe?
15:20Yeah.
15:21You couldn't stop her?
15:24What?
15:27What didn't stop her?
15:31We didn't know.
15:34You say you saw the puddle every day.
15:38Yeah.
15:39You're aware that the Environment Agency has been unable to confirm any subsequent spills.
15:44But there was only one confirmed report of a spill during your holiday.
15:49Why do you think you were the only one who saw the puddle?
15:52I don't know.
15:55I saw it.
15:56Is it possible that you've confused things in your memory?
15:58No, I saw it.
16:00We all saw it, didn't we?
16:05It was a puddle and a little stream of poo.
16:11In the days running out to the Preen's visit, the Environment Agency received at least 14 complaints about sewage on
16:20the beach.
16:21In the week before Heather Preen fell ill, I treated two children with febrile gastroenteritis.
16:28The children had been swimming at the town beach and then found themselves immersed in raw sewage.
16:35I reported it but heard nothing more.
16:38In the days after the Preen's visit, Dorlish was inundated with feces.
16:44Big influxes of sewage debris were turning up on the beach.
16:48Our cleaners logged the number of sanitary towels.
16:51Southwest Water pays contractors to clean up the sewage by hand.
16:54Resort staff were cleaning away sewage as a matter of urgency.
17:02At least six other children were infected with the E. coli virus after being at the beach that day.
17:10Sophie Smith was seven months old.
17:14Back home in Walsall, she was diagnosed with an E. coli O157 infection.
17:2011-year-old Jane Duncan was hospitalized with an E. coli O157 infection.
17:29She bled through her anus 50 times in the first few days and asked her parents if she was going
17:35to die.
17:37Ashley, Ruby and Dylan Hamlin, along with their mum Claire, were all infected.
17:43Claire drove her son Dylan to hospital after they both began bleeding from their backsides.
17:51Doctors wouldn't admit Claire at first, so she cleared up her own blood and vomit from the toilets.
17:59Later, Dylan's sisters Ashley and Ruby were also admitted.
18:12There's no cure for E. coli.
18:15They keep you on a drip and hope for the best.
18:21Dylan's screaming was so frightening his dad thought everyone was going to die.
18:27E. coli 0157 is a pathogen that thrives in sewage.
18:31It can survive in water for up to 91 days.
18:35Swimming in water, infected with E. coli, has been identified as the cause of multiple outbreaks.
18:43We tested the waters around Orlish.
18:46Of the 45 samples taken, only two came back positive for E. coli 0157.
18:52The infected families were all on a part of the beach where dogs were allowed.
18:56They could all have criss-crossed the site of an infected dog faeces.
19:01None of us were on the same part of the beach.
19:04We never saw any dog poo.
19:07This map doesn't make any sense.
19:10Families went on the same part of the beach.
19:12No one saw any dog faeces.
19:14And there's no good evidence of transmission from dogs anywhere.
19:19Southwest Water and the Environment Agency present this improbable theory
19:24whilst choosing to ignore repeated substantial sewage pollution.
19:29The agency did carry out tests on the seawater.
19:33But the testing took place on the 27th of August.
19:37A full month after the infected families had visited the beach.
19:50A crazy...
19:51A fucking crazy dog.
19:52A fucking crazy dog.
19:52Oh, Mum.
19:55You're twisted, haven't you?
19:56I've not missed it.
20:01I've never done, haven't I?
20:02You've not let her down.
20:04I think I can ask Henry to fucking do it again.
20:06Mum, what are you all about?
20:08You've done it. You've stuck up for her.
20:10No.
20:13We still call this family.
20:20We saw the sanctuary towers, Jill.
20:24We saw the toilet row. We...
20:28Didn't we?
20:32And we let our babies come back home.
20:37Not here. Not here.
20:53At first they said it was something we had to eat, but it wasn't, so...
20:57Then they came up with dog poo.
21:01But how could all of our kids walk through the same bit of poo without remembering?
21:08I would know if my child had touched poo.
21:14The one thing all our kids did do was go into the water.
21:19We saw the toilet roll.
21:22We saw the sanitary towels.
21:25You can't tell us we didn't see it, because we did. We saw it.
21:33We saw it.
21:34I know now.
21:35We should have turned away from that beach.
21:39I know that.
21:42Heather's dad knows that.
21:46We will live with that.
21:49We chose Dawlish because of the blue flag, and we trusted it.
21:54The gold standard of water quality.
21:59We didn't know it was a lie.
22:07No one should have died the way my Heather died.
22:14She was poisoned, and the anti-sickness tablets they gave her meant her little body couldn't get rid of it.
22:24She was liquidised from the inside.
22:32We went on holiday, a family of four, and we've come back a family of three.
22:47And we don't want any money, don't worry.
22:50We don't want your money, so...
22:53We just...
22:55We want something to change.
22:59We don't want another family to go to the beach and come back with one less child.
23:07And you're still dumping sewage.
23:11And you...
23:13You're the Environment Agency.
23:16You're supposed to look after us, and you are sat here, in this court, and you're swapping notes with Southwest
23:21Water. Why?
23:24And it took you, it took him one month, to go looking for the E. coli that killed my daughter?
23:31Why would you do that?
23:35What is this?
23:40I would not wish what has happened to us on my worst enemy.
23:48I wouldn't wish it on your kids.
23:53So, please...
23:56Close the beach, please.
24:01Before this happens to somebody else, please.
24:16Before this happens to somebody else, please.
24:21I don't know.
24:21A. coli Preen, touching on the death of Heather Amy Preen.
24:28The cause of death was E. coli poisoning.
24:34The deceased probably contracted E. coli whilst visiting the beach at Dawlish Warren on the 24th of July...
24:42along with other children who survived.
24:49I recommend that consideration be given to a notice
24:52warning the public of sewage discharges
24:57and that an ultraviolet treatment should be added to the sewage works at Dawlish.
25:02Consideration should be given to greater enforcement of the dogs on the beach ban.
25:26THE END
25:26June 2019, Sir James Bevan Environment Agency.
25:30Dear Sir James, I wrote to you to raise concerns about a serious integrity issue involving the Agency.
25:36I did not receive any acknowledgement.
25:39Yes, Sir James Bevan.
25:42This is Ash Smith. Windrush against sewage pollution.
25:45We've sent an email. We've sent a lot of emails.
25:47Ash.
25:48What?
25:49Ash.
25:50Yes, I'll hold.
25:50I'm on a bloody phone.
25:51They want us to come in.
25:58How do you know?
26:00Any of the beast?
26:08Very nice to meet you. Hello there, Miss Hunt. Please do sit down.
26:11Sir James is on the premises.
26:14He's... I think he's at a meeting.
26:17I was hoping he might be even present in the meeting.
26:21Not this kind of meeting, though. He's...
26:22I just wanted to start with a few questions about integrity.
26:27Because I see that the Agency's former Director of Operations joined the Board of British Water while he was working
26:34for the Agency,
26:34which means that your COO was moonlighting for the water companies while he was regulating them.
26:42So what do we...
26:43Oh dear.
26:43What do we call that?
26:44Well, I think moonlighting is a pretty strong word.
26:47Yeah.
26:47Definition.
26:48What I would say is that Toby Willison no longer works for the Agency.
26:51That's the first point.
26:53And when he...
26:54But how does that affect when he was here that...
26:58The fact that he's not here isn't...
26:59I'm coming on to that.
27:00His declarations, with all due respect, his declarations of interest were noted at the time.
27:05Right.
27:05And any risks at all, and we do take these things very seriously, were appropriately managed.
27:09Yes, but then Mr. Willison was hired by a water company as it stood trial on 51 counts of sewage
27:16dumping.
27:16How is that not a case of conflict of interest?
27:19Ah, well, very clear rules, which was what I was going to say.
27:23Very clear, clear rules around conflict of interest were put in place as soon as Mr. Willison decided to take
27:29up his new job.
27:30So he stepped out of any relevant discussions.
27:34We did everything we could to do that.
27:36Well, the judge ruled that all criminal activity in that case was masterminded from the top of the company.
27:41So was Mr. Willison involved in the decision not to prosecute Southern executives?
27:46We can't comment on that.
27:48No.
27:48No.
27:48We can't comment on that.
27:49Yeah, we don't talk about internal meetings.
27:53Well, how many water company executives has the agency prosecuted?
27:58Well, criminal prosecution's quite a high bar.
28:02That's it.
28:03If we had evidence that the offence was serious enough, we wouldn't hesitate to prosecute, but there is no substantiated
28:10evidence.
28:10We've just given you evidence.
28:11But it's not substantiated.
28:12A board sanctioned plan for seven years of continuous dumping was not enough evidence.
28:22Thanks so much.
28:23I will be in touch.
28:24I will be in touch.
28:25Congratulations.
28:27Thanks so much.
28:28I hope that goes well.
28:41I'm going to get another one.
28:45You're going to have another Flake 99?
28:48Eileen thinks I've got an obsessive stricter.
28:51Well, she's not wrong, is she?
28:58What the hell was that?
29:00Well, do you think they'd be more grateful for our disclosures about revolving doors?
29:05Did they really think that that was all right, working for both of them at the same time?
29:09I think you're taking it personally.
29:11I am.
29:11You know, I mean, for me it's an occupational hazard.
29:13I feel like I've been beaten up.
29:15That's how I feel.
29:16And I've never been beaten up.
29:18We're getting somewhere.
29:19We're making a difference.
29:21We're clearly up against something bigger.
29:35It doesn't.
29:41It doesn't matter.
29:43Go.
29:44Go.
29:44Go.
29:45Let's go.
29:45Come on.
29:47Go.
29:48Go.
29:50Go.
29:51Go.
29:54Go.
30:05Oh
30:42Right, so you know, she's not going to be back from football till about seven, so just
30:48tell her to put that in the microwave.
30:52You look nice.
30:56What is it?
31:02You know, Tony's got that flat down the Arrendale Road, he's not using, where he said that
31:12I can stop there for a bit if I want, you know, just for what I did a Tesco job
31:18like.
31:22Yeah, good idea.
31:25Might be better more, isn't it?
31:27Yeah.
31:28Yeah.
31:32I'm going to be late.
31:33Yes.
31:39All right?
31:46Yeah.
31:54See ya.
31:55See ya.
32:11What?
32:12You all right, Dad?
32:14I've got your pizza in here if you want it.
32:16I'm not hungry.
32:19I've got a project, so I might just...
32:22All right, yeah.
32:23We'll have it later, shall we?
32:24Yeah.
32:25If we get hungry.
32:26All right.
32:38Do you want anything, Bob?
32:43I've got nothing special.
32:45I love you.
32:47I love you.
32:48I love you.
32:49I love you.
32:50I love you.
32:50I love you.
32:51I love you.
32:51You all right, Val?
32:52Hmm?
32:53God, look at you.
32:55What's going on, Mom?
33:21Watch the video, it's really
33:24not as bad as you think it is.
33:26No, it's okay.
33:28There it is.
33:29Is there sound on this?
33:30I don't know.
33:32It's apparently it doesn't see.
33:33Oh, no.
33:34Yeah, let's go for it.
33:38Good.
33:40We actually think it's agricultural runoff.
33:44Yeah.
33:45Well, from farms?
33:46Mm-hmm.
33:47It's almost certainly farm runoff.
33:49Almost certainly.
33:50Yeah.
33:50We believe.
33:51And we do have a responsibility to report that to the environment, age and spills.
33:58Blimey.
33:59So we'd say this is due to the farms, and that is what has led to this overspill.
34:07That's really nice.
34:07I love that as well.
34:08That was very good.
34:09So though there have been storm activated overspill, the discolouration of the water
34:16is because of agricultural runoff.
34:19We are sorry about this, and we will do everything in our power to improve the situation.
34:27Yeah.
34:28But some of it is not our fault.
34:29Well, I think we can just own it.
34:30It is not our fault.
34:31Exactly.
34:32I think we just own it.
34:33It's farm's fault.
34:34Yeah.
34:34I can use the hands, and I think that helps the audience to feel like I'm one of them.
34:40Yeah.
34:40You very much do fit in as well with one of them.
34:42You know that you're almost one of them in many ways.
34:46Yes.
34:47I thought, hi-biz, a pair of those wraparound goggles that can ski as well.
34:51Yeah.
34:52And a hard hat.
34:53I hear your frustration.
34:55I really do.
34:56Smashed it.
34:57I thought it was amazing.
34:58So you know we've been getting a lot of these sickness reports coming in from the
35:02Southwest.
35:03They've asked us if we wanted to go to a meeting down there.
35:06It's kind of a national thing.
35:07There's going to be water company bosses there.
35:10And I think we should go, shouldn't we?
35:12We've done a huge amount of research at the UK Council of Water on levels of public trust
35:16in the water industry.
35:19And what we've found generally is that levels of public trust are actually pretty high.
35:25Well, you might laugh, but-
35:27Guy, I actually, I do get it.
35:29There's been a lot of pain.
35:30There's been a lot of frustration.
35:32We have the only bathing status river in this country.
35:34And we have 2,000 people there in the summer with their kids, with fishing nets,
35:39sitting amongst turds.
35:41We're all passionate about the environment.
35:44We're passionate about water quality.
35:45It's the driving force behind what we do.
35:48Can you answer why then?
35:49My son's been so ill from 2022 after a day on the beach and then contracted hepatitis A.
35:57That is the week before we went on our holiday.
36:02That's the week after in hospital.
36:04That's a week later when he's starting to get jaundice and he's starting to get bilirubin.
36:09And that, that's from something called cholestasis, which affects your gallbladder.
36:15He itched like crazy.
36:17These scars are still around.
36:19He can't stand without them hurting.
36:21Through school, I missed about properly three, four months.
36:25And even when I was at school, I was like tired.
36:29I was dropping to sleep.
36:30I couldn't remember half the stuff I learned.
36:32And it took a lot, a long time to sort of build back up, sort of friendship group.
36:39And it also led to like a lot of bullying.
36:42People saying, oh, you went in the water, all this dirty water, human pooing it and stuff like that.
36:48I used to do a lot of farming, helping my dad.
36:51It just wipes you out. You've got no energy. You can't do anything.
36:54You just had to stop.
36:57Every feedback that you give us is, you know, really, really important to us.
37:00I didn't know at the time, but Surfers Against Sewage explained that there was 342 hours of raw sewage
37:07that was released into the beach that I was swimming on.
37:09This particular strep bacteria entered my bloodstream and started growing on my heart valve.
37:15So I had to have a heart replacement.
37:16I was in hospital for six weeks.
37:18I ended up having open heart surgery.
37:21The health and wellbeing of our customers is at the forefront of what we do.
37:25And hearing stories like this is incredibly important to us.
37:28I was ignored.
37:29Lessons will be learned going forwards.
37:31We can reflect on them going forwards.
37:33You've had your say, now listen to someone who's worked in the water industry for 40 years of his life.
37:39Prior to privatisation, if the infrastructure needed upgrading, it got it.
37:42If it needed bits of plant to be replaced, it got it.
37:45It was run like a military operation.
37:48Macquarie's come along.
37:50God help us.
37:51Asset stripped it.
37:53Sold land.
37:54Sold pumping stations.
37:55Built blocks of flats onto it.
37:57And decimated our infrastructure.
37:59This falls back to the government to renationalise this industry.
38:03ASAP.
38:08Get rid of the people who have asset stripped it.
38:11Stripped it of millions of pounds.
38:13All your profits.
38:14All your bonuses.
38:15Keir Starmer.
38:16Steve Reid.
38:17The Invisible Man.
38:18Do your job.
38:19And renationalise the water industry.
38:22Well...
38:22Well...
38:30Mistakes are made, but I would say this, and I'd happily go on the record.
38:34I would drink water out of any tap in the United Kingdom.
38:39Sorry, would you come to Brixham and have a glass of our water?
38:42Last year in May, we had an outbreak of cryptosporidium, as Susan Davies knows.
38:48It's obviously a privilege and a huge responsibility to run a water company.
38:56And it's one that I take very, very seriously.
38:58I was poisoned by cryptosporidium in the water.
39:01I was ill for such a very long time.
39:03Six months or more.
39:04My body was attacking itself.
39:05My immune system was attacking itself.
39:07My injuries are life changing.
39:09What we are committed to is improving, step by step.
39:12And things do go wrong.
39:13Things go wrong.
39:14I put my hands up.
39:15Could you please explain to us why you got a 58% pay rise?
39:20I don't actually set my pay.
39:24I don't actually.
39:25It's not down to me how much I'm paid.
39:28The amount you're talking about will actually be a cost of living increase.
39:32Yeah, yeah.
39:33You earn 860 grand a year?
39:36We don't have a choice in our water provider.
39:39I come from Henley.
39:40We're in the Thames region.
39:42I know Ash and Peter well.
39:43How have we arrived in a situation where a privatised water industry is scamming the public,
39:49is taking off enormous profits and dividends for shareholders,
39:53paying huge bonuses to executives,
39:55and our children are getting vomiting and diarrhoea
39:57from doing what should come naturally.
39:59We do not trust you.
40:00Not one water company executive has ever been prosecuted
40:04and served prison time, quite honestly, which they should.
40:08We're here.
40:14There you go.
40:15Let's see.
40:16Oh, oh, oh.
40:18Sorry, sorry, sorry.
40:21Yeah, hello.
40:22Pee Pee, listen to me.
40:22Mickey, yeah?
40:24I haven't got much time, all right?
40:25River rain outside Swindon.
40:27The sewage maze exploded.
40:30It's a crime scene.
40:31You've got to get down there right now before they clear it up.
40:33And Pee, listen.
40:35We're a 21-carat key, sir.
40:37So are you, Mickey.
41:03The river's gone, Nash, I mean.
41:07That's...
41:08And it's not coming back.
41:19How many do you reckon?
41:22Well, killed.
41:25Hundreds.
41:26Thousands.
41:26Thousands of babies, definitely.
41:33What?
41:34Ash, I'm scared that we're running out of time.
41:40What do you mean by that?
41:41That we're running out of time to make a difference.
41:46What are you talking about?
41:47Look at this.
41:47Look at this we've got.
41:48This is...
41:49It's the best stuff so far.
41:50But nothing's going to happen, is it, Ash?
41:52What do you mean?
41:53In terms of water, they're going to make a statement saying that the environment is their number one priority, and
42:01the agency, they're just going to launch an investigation that we'll never hear about again, and they're acting as though
42:10we don't exist.
42:11So what are you saying?
42:14I...
42:15I don't know how long we've got.
42:20We're not going to make a difference.
42:21There's no time left to make a difference.
42:24What are you talking about?
42:25Look at...
42:25Look at this we just shot.
42:29But it doesn't matter...
42:30This is not the time to pack it in.
42:32But it doesn't matter what we show them.
42:34It doesn't matter...
42:34I mean, we could show them dead bodies floating down the river.
42:37They still wouldn't do anything about it, would they?
42:39Right.
42:40We just go back, you go and watch some bloody jazz.
42:43Because when you think you're beaten, you don't give...
42:47We're going to the right channels, we're doing the right thing, and nothing's coming back.
42:51And nothing's come back for years.
42:53What do you want to do?
42:55It...
42:55It's exhausting.
42:57We get nothing back.
42:59I'm not stopping.
43:01I can't.
43:11Come here.
43:13Let's go.
43:13No, no.
43:15No.
43:15Yeah, no.
43:15Yeah, we're on the paper.
43:32May 2020. Subject, Environment Agency complicit in law-breaking.
43:37Dear Sir James, over the past two years, Professor Peter Hammond and I have been documenting chronic offending by Thames
43:43water.
43:45Thames have been using our river as a cheap way to carry raw sewage out to sea and making vast
43:50profits doing so.
43:51The Environment Agency has been turning a blind eye and misrepresenting facts to the public.
44:13Peter.
44:16Peter.
44:18It's the middle of the night.
44:20What are you doing?
44:24I was worried. I couldn't sleep.
44:28Worried about what?
44:33About all the things that, all the things that live in the river.
44:40You didn't put your hands in it, did you?
44:44No.
44:46Okay.
44:49There's nothing you can do now.
44:52I know.
44:54I know.
44:56Okay.
44:58So, shall we go back to bed?
45:02Yeah.
45:03Yeah.
45:05Yeah.
45:05I know.
45:06Yeah.
45:29I'm sorry.
45:30I know.
45:30I know.
45:38I don't know.
46:13We have the best quality water since the Industrial Revolution.
46:16The water's turned brown.
46:17From today, we are ending on-site inspections for Cats 3 and 4.
46:22What exactly do you want us to do?
46:25Reuben! Reuben!
46:29We need another whistleblower.
46:31The regulation isn't real.
46:32The government wants us to look like a regulator, but they won't let us do our job.
46:35You have a duty not to disclose confidential information to anyone not authorized to receive it!
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