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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.
19:49What is it?
19:51Oh, Mum.
19:52Fucking crunch, John.
19:52No, Mum.
19:55You've twisted everything?
19:56I don't get it.
20:01I've let you've done, haven't I?
20:02I've let you've done it.
20:03You've not let you've done it.
20:04I think I can ask Henry if I can do it again.
20:06Mum?
20:07What are you on about?
20:08You've done it, you- you've stuck up for her.
20:10I don't know.
20:11No, I don't know.
20:20We saw the sanctuary towers, Jill. We saw the toilet row. Didn't we? And we let our babies
20:33come back home.
20:37Not here. Not here.
20:53At first they said it was something we had to eat, but it wasn't so. Then they came up
20:58with dog poo. But 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. We saw the toilet roll. We saw
21:23the
21:23sanitary towels. You can't tell us we didn't see it because we did. We saw it. I know now.
21:35We should have turned away from that beach. I know that. Heather's dad knows that. We
21:47will live with that. We chose Dawlish because of the blue flag and we trusted it. The gold
21:55standard of water quality. We didn't know it was a lie. No one should have died the way
22:09my Heather died. She was poisoned. And the anti-sickness tablets they gave her meant her little body
22:20couldn't get rid of it. She 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. We don't want your money, so we just, we want
22:56something to change. We don't want another family to go to the beach and come back with
23:02one less child. And you're still dumping sewage. And you, you're the environment agency. You're
23:16supposed to look after us and you are sat here in this court and you're swapping notes with
23:21Southwest Water. Why? And it took you, it took him one month to go looking for the E. coli
23:28that killed my daughter. Why would you do that? What is this? I would not wish what has happened
23:44to us on my worst enemy. I wouldn't wish it on your kids. So please, close the beach, please.
24:01Before this happens to somebody else, please.
24:17Following an inquisition taken for our Sovereign Lady, the Queen, touching on the death of Heather
24:24Amy Preen. The cause of death was E. coli poisoning. The deceased properly contracted E. coli whilst
24:37visiting the beach at Dawlish Warren on the 24th of July, along with other children who survived.
24:49I recommend that consideration be given to a notice warning 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.
25:26June 2019, Sir James Bevan Environment Agency. Dear Sir James, I wrote to you to raise concerns
25:33about a serious integrity issue involving the agency. I did not receive any acknowledgement.
25:39Yes, Sir James Bevan. This is Ash Smith. Windrush against sewage pollution. We sent an email.
25:45We sent a lot of emails. Ash. What? Ash. Yes, I'll hold. I'm on a bloody phone. They want us
25:52to come in.
25:58Oh, no. Early at the base.
26:08Very nice to meet you. Hello there, Mr Hunt. Please do sit down.
26:11Sir James is on the premises. I...
26:14He's... I think he's at a meeting. He's been called out. He's been called out. He's been called out.
26:22I just wanted to start with a few questions about integrity. Because I see that the agency's former director of
26:30operations joined the board of British Water while he was working for the agency, which means that your COO was
26:37moonlighting for the water companies while he was regulating them.
26:42So what do we... Oh dear. What do we call that?
26:44Well, I think moonlighting is a pretty strong word. Yeah. Um... Definition.
26:48What I would say is that Toby Willison no longer works for the agency. That's the first point. And when
26:53he decided...
26:55But how does that affect when he was here that... The fact that he's not here isn't...
26:59I'm coming on to that. His declarations, with all due respect, his declarations of interest were noted at the time.
27:05Right. And 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. Very clear, clear rules around conflict of
27:25interest were put in place as soon as Mr. Willison decided to take up his new job.
27:30So he stepped out of any relevant discussions. We did everything we could to do that.
27:36The 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. No. We 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 is quite a high bar.
28:02That's if we had evidence that the offence was serious enough, we wouldn't hesitate to prosecute.
28:08But there is no substantiated evidence.
28:10We've just given you evidence. You've been told you.
28:11But it's not substantiated.
28:13A board sanctioned plan for seven years of continuous dumping was not enough evidence.
28:22Thanks so much.
28:23We'll be in touch.
28:25Congratulations.
28:26Thank you so much.
28:27Thanks so much.
28:28I hope that goes well.
28:41I'm gonna get another one.
28:45You're gonna have another Flake 99?
28:48Eileen thinks I've got an obsessive streak on.
28:51Well, she's not wrong, is she?
28:58What the hell was that?
29:00Well, did you think they'd be more grateful for our disclosures about revolving doors?
29:05Did they really think that that was all right?
29:07Working for both of them at the same time?
29:09I think you're taking it personally.
29:11I am.
29:11I 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.
29:19We're clearly up against something bigger.
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31:28Yeah.
31:32I'm going to be late.
31:33Yes.
31:39All right.
31:46Yeah.
31:54See ya.
31:55See ya.
31:56See ya.
31:56See ya.
32:19See ya.
32:22See ya.
32:23See ya.
32:24See ya.
32:26Get hungry.
32:26All right.
32:38Do you want anything bad?
32:42What?
32:43I got this special.
32:45I love you.
32:47I love you.
32:48I love you.
32:48I love you.
32:49I love you.
32:50I love you.
32:50I love you.
32:51You all right Val?
32:53My God, look at you.
32:55What's going on, Mom?
32:56You all right?
33:12No.
33:15No.
33:15All right.
33:16No.
33:21No.
33:22the video it's really not as bad as you think it is we actually think it's some
33:42agricultural right off yeah mm-hmm it's almost certainly farm runoff almost
33:49certainly yeah we believe and we do have we do have a responsibility to report that to the
33:55environment agent spills so we'd certainly this is due to the farm the farms and that is what has
34:04led to this overspill that's really nice I love that as well that was very good so though there
34:10have been storm activated overspill discoloration of the water yes because of agricultural runoff
34:19yeah we are sorry about this and we will do everything in our power to improve the situation
34:27but some of it is not our fault well I think we can just only not yeah exactly I think
34:32we just we
34:33just own it yeah I can use the hands and I think that helps the audience to feel like I'm
34:39one of
34:40them yeah you very much you fit in as well with one of them you know that you you're almost
34:45one of them
34:45in many ways yes yes I thought hi viz pair of those wraparound goggles yeah and a hard hat I
34:53hear
34:54your frustration I really do smashed it I thought it was amazing so you know we've been getting a lot
35:00of these um sickness reports coming from the southwest well they've asked us if we wanted to go to a
35:05meeting down there it's kind of a national thing there's going to be the water company bosses there
35:09and I mean I think we should go we've done a huge amount of research at the UK council of
35:15water on
35:15levels of public trust in in the water industry and what we found generally is that levels of public
35:22trust are actually actually pretty high no no well you you might laugh but but guy I actually I do
35:28get
35:29it there's been a lot of pain there's been a lot of frustration we have the only bathing status river
35:34in this country and we have 2 000 people there in the summer with their kids with fishing nets
35:39sitting amongst turds we're all passionate about the environment we're passionate about water quality
35:45it's the driving force behind what we do no answer why then my son's been so ill from 2022
35:52after a day on the beach and then contracted hepatitis a that is the week before we went on our
36:01holiday
36:01that's the week after in hospital that's a week later when he's starting to get jaundice and he's
36:08starting to get bilirubin and that that's from something called cholestasis which affects your
36:14gallbladder he itched like crazy these scars are still around he can't stand without them hurting
36:21through school I missed about properly three four months and even when I was at school um I was like
36:28tired I was dropping sleep I couldn't remember half the stuff I learned and it took a lot a long
36:33time
36:34to sort of build back up a sort of friendship group um and it also led to like a lot
36:41of bullying
36:42people saying oh you went in the war all this dirty water human poo in it and stuff like that
36:47um
36:48I used to do a lot of farming helping my dad just wipes you out you've got no energy you
36:52can't do
36:53anything you just you just had to stop every feedback that you give us is you know really
36:59really important to us I didn't know at the time but surfers against sewage explained that there was
37:05342 hours of raw sewage that was released into the beach that I was swimming on this particular
37:10strep bacteria entered my bloodstream and started growing on my heart valve so I had to have a heart
37:15replacement I was in hospital for six weeks I ended up having um open heart surgery the health and
37:22well-being of our customers is at the forefront of what we do and hearing stories like this is
37:26incredibly important to us lessons will be learned going forwards we can reflect on them going forwards
37:33you've had to say now listen of someone who's worked in the water industry for 40 years of his life
37:38prior to privatization if the infrastructure needed upgrading it got it if it needed bits of plants to
37:44be replaced it got it it was run like a military operation macquarie's come along god help us
37:51asset stripped it sold land sold pumping stations built blocks of flats onto it and decimated our
37:58infrastructure this falls back to the government to re-nationalize this industry ASAP
38:07get get rid of the people who have asset stripped it stripped it of millions of pounds all your profits
38:14all your bonuses keir starmer steve reed the invisible man do your job and re-nationalize the water industry
38:21well
38:30mistakes are made but I would say this and I'd happily go on the record I would drink water out
38:36of any tap in the United Kingdom
38:39sorry would you come to Brixham and have a glass of our water
38:41um last last year in May we had an outbreak of cryptosporidium as Susan Davies knows
38:48it's obviously a privilege and a huge responsibility uh to run a water company
38:55and it's one that I take very very seriously
38:58I was poisoned by cryptosporidium in the water
39:00I was ill for such a very long time six months or more
39:03my body was attacking itself my immune system was attacking itself my injuries are life-changing
39:08what we are committed to is improving step by step and things do go wrong
39:13things go wrong I put my hands up
39:15please explain to us why you got a 58 percent pay rise
39:20I don't actually uh set my uh pay I don't actually it's not down to me how much I'm paid
39:27um the amount you're talking about will actually be a cost of living increase
39:32yeah yeah you earn 860 grand a year we don't have a choice in our water provider
39:38um I come from Henley we're in the Thames region I know Ash and Peter well how have we arrived
39:44in a
39:45situation where a privatized water industry is scamming the public is taking off enormous profits
39:51and dividends for shareholders paying huge bonuses to executives and our children are getting vomiting
39:56and diarrhea from doing what should come naturally we do not trust you
40:00not one water company executive has ever been prosecuted and served prison time
40:06quite honestly which they should
40:14there you go
40:15let's see
40:16oh sorry sorry sorry
40:20yeah yeah hello pp listen to me
40:22mickey yeah i haven't got much time all right river rain outside swindon
40:27the sewage maze exploded it's a crime scene where you gotta get down there right now before
40:32to clear it up mp listen thank you for 21 karat keitha
40:36yeah so are you
41:03the river's gone
41:04um ash i mean that's that's that's not coming back
41:17oh
41:19how many do you reckon
41:22or killed
41:23mm-hmm hundreds thousands thousands of babies definitely
41:28Are they?
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? Look at this. Look at this we've got.
41:48This is the best stuff so far.
41:50But nothing's going to happen, is it Ash?
41:52What do you mean?
41:54Thameswater, they're going to make a statement saying that the environment is their number one priority
42:00and the agency, they're just going to launch an investigation that we'll never hear about again.
42:07And they're acting as though we don't exist.
42:12So what are you saying?
42:14I don't know how long we've got.
42:19What?
42:20We're not going to make a difference. There's no time left to make a difference.
42:24What are you talking about? Look 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. I mean, we could show them dead bodies floating down the river.
42:37They still wouldn't do anything about it, would they?
42:39Right. We just go back, you go and watch some bloody jazz.
42:44When you think you're beaten, you don't give in.
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?
42:56It's exhausting. We get nothing back.
42:59I'm not stopping.
43:01I can't.
43:06I can't.
43:13Hello.
43:13Yeah, I know.
43:15Yeah, we're on the paper.
43:32May 2020
43:34Subject, Environment Agency
43:36Complicit in Lawbreaking
43:37Dear Sir James, over the past two years
43:39Professor Peter Hammond and I have been documenting
43:41chronic offending by Thames Water
43:44Thames have been
43:45using our river as a cheap way to carry
43:48raw sewage out to sea and making
43:49vast profits doing so
43:51The Environment Agency has been turning
43:53a blind eye and misrepresenting
43:56facts to the public
44:13Peter
44:16Peter
44:18It's the middle of the night
44:20What are you doing?
44:24I was worried
44:25I couldn't sleep
44:28Worried about what?
44:33About all the things
44:34all the things that live in the river
44:40You didn't put your hands in it
44:41Did you?
44:44No
44:45Okay
44:49There's nothing you can do now
44:52No
44:54No
44:56Okay
44:58So
45:00Shall we go back to bed?
45:02Yeah
45:02Yeah
45:03Yeah
45:04Yeah
45:11I don't know.
45:43I don't know.
46:13We have the best quality water since the Industrial Revolution.
46:16The water's turned brown.
46:18From 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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