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00:12Privatised water is a better deal than nationalised water.
00:17That the water privatisation I believe will go very successfully indeed, that will go
00:23very successfully indeed, and perhaps therefore we have better wait and see so that we can
00:29pontificate in the light of the fact.
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00:55That seaweed, do not throw it!
01:03You hungry?
01:07Ice cream!
01:08No, we just got here, you will.
01:10Yeah, we'll get it on the way back to the chalet, all right?
01:13Yeah, we'll get it, we'll get it back.
01:15It's dead, isn't it?
01:15I do promise you, I will, I promise.
01:27Girls, wait, please. Heather, stop!
01:30What?
01:31Bloody hell.
01:33Heather, I told you to stop, didn't I?
01:36Think that's poo?
01:37Of course it's not poo.
01:42Sneak.
01:43It wasn't poo.
01:44It's not pooing.
01:46Don't come in.
01:47Don'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.
01:54I don't think we're doing that.
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?
02:01No, you are.
02:02Is it off her?
02:03You what?
02:04Is it off her?
02:05Yeah, I think so.
02:06You're the donor.
02:06Get a towel.
02:07Here, get a dry.
02:08Me.
02:09There you go.
02:10We've got a smelly little mermaid.
02:11Still smells that.
02:14Is that ticklish?
02:15Yeah.
02:16Tell the other one about that one.
02:19No.
02:19No?
02:20Oh, look at that.
02:27Nothing.
02:41No.
02:42No.
02:42No.
02:43No, no.
02:45The chub came later, of course.
02:49they're gone
02:50what the chub
02:51well the chub
02:52the barbell
02:53the eels
02:53everything
02:55well yes
02:56the water's brown
03:01you don't really think
03:02about the colour
03:06when you see it every day
03:08the brown here
03:10just seems normal
03:12would Eileen still do
03:14that water bowl register
03:15no
03:16let's know that they're gone as well
03:18I mean I remember when I first
03:24came here that it was
03:27crystalline 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
03:57dinner conversation
03:58it's not like I'm a Russian spy am I
04:02it's not like I'm you know
04:02not working for Putin am I
04:05that makes me wonder now
04:06why would you say that
04:07you investigated Ben Coppers wasn't it
04:10yeah 25 years
04:12well come on but 25 years you must have
04:14you must have some stories wasn't you
04:17not really
04:19why don't you have the game pie
04:20I don't like game pie
04:21should we get some mixed greens
04:23no I'm just having the soup
04:25and the crusty bread
04:27that sounds nice
04:30that's right yes
04:31there will have been some
04:34minor discoloration
04:35in one or two sections of the river
04:39there's been a discharge
04:41from the Burford Works
04:43a discharge?
04:44discharge of what?
04:46untreated sewage
04:47yeah legally they're allowed to spill
04:49after heavy rainfall
04:53so they can they can
04:54they can just do that can they?
04:56that's what he said
04:57they're allowed
04:59to dump untreated sewage
05:01into the river
05:02right after heavy rain
05:03but that that can't be right
05:05because it it rains all the time
05:07well heavy rain he said
05:08I don't remember any heavy rain do you?
05:10you know I'm going to
05:11write to Thames Water
05:13and ask how many times
05:14they'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
05:23has been discharged
05:24into the river wind rush
05:25for the past three years
05:27untreated sewage
05:28mixed with treated sewage
05:30has been discharged
05:31240 times
05:32kind regards
05:34when did that come in?
05:35when did it come in
05:36that you could put
05:37untreated sewage
05:39into the river
05:40per se?
05:41I don't see
05:41how putting any kind of
05:43pathogens into the river
05:45could possibly be allowed
05:46I mean people are swimming in there
05:47dear Mr Smith
05:49in response to your request
05:51for information
05:51please find attached
05:53the documents below
05:54kind regards
05:56wankers
05:57this must be like
05:59like one of your cases
06:01mustn't it?
06:02all this
06:02when you used to be a detective
06:04no
06:05but you know
06:06poisonous stuff
06:08in the river
06:09and we're not being warned about it
06:11that'd be a
06:11that'd be a scandal
06:25it's a tummy bug
06:2748 hour thing
06:28plenty of liquids
06:30I'll give you some
06:31anti-sickness tablets
06:32just to stop the vomiting
06:33okay?
06:34thank you
06:36hey dar
06:37oh shit
06:38how many was he?
06:39the doctor said
06:40you've got to take
06:41your medicine now
06:41see
06:44close your eyes
06:45if you want ma'am
06:46yeah keep them closed
06:47here you go
06:50well exactly
06:51no they said
06:52treated sewage
06:53mixed with untreated sewage
06:54240 times
06:55yeah
07:09this is free jazz
07:11is it?
07:12oh um
07:13no it's not free jazz
07:14it's uh
07:15contemporary jazz
07:16it's like free jazz
07:17right
07:19and people pay money
07:20to listen to them
07:21she's just come round
07:22to piss me off
07:23no
07:24I'm going to show you something
07:26look at this
07:27so uh
07:28what is this
07:29so this is uh
07:30is this a reply
07:31from Thames Water
07:32they're drowning me
07:33in numbers
07:34oh I can see that
07:35I mean how are you
07:36supposed to make
07:36anything of that crap
07:37well maybe
07:38maybe that's what
07:39they're banking on
07:40there's a needle in there
07:41somewhere
07:41just you know
07:42go through the haste
07:43act to find it
07:44you're the Oxford
07:45professor of mathematics
07:46no computational biology
07:49it's not um
07:50still math
07:51it's nice
07:51machine learning actually
07:53so what's that like
07:54AI
07:55I know you're going to
07:55take the piss
07:56but it's it's a bit like
07:57free jazz
07:58oh
08:00depressing and pointless
08:01er no
08:02no there's rules
08:03so there's a kind of
08:05order
08:05beneath the
08:07the chaos
08:07um
08:08and you've got to listen
08:09really hard
08:10er for the patterns
08:11why don't you
08:13just email me
08:14these and I'll
08:15I'll take a look
08:39ach nee
08:47these what you've given me that they're flow numbers they track the sewage coming into the
08:52works and the rate at which is treated so it's safe to go back into the river but there's
08:59something weird about this yeah what well here look now on the 27th of december the flow of
09:09treated effluent coming out of the works just stops it just stops completely right what do you
09:15mean it stops the flow it just stops there's no there's no treated effluent going back into the
09:21river so two days after christmas the people of burford stop going to the toilet no no see this
09:28is it because the raw sewage is still going into the works but there's nothing coming out
09:37now 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 us a
09:46bit more detail is that ashley and peter uh yeah yes yes well thanks so much for taking my call
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
10:25jacksies 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 not
10:43stop discharging uh the measurements were temporarily interrupted it's weird and we'd like to invite you
10:53on uh a tour of the burford works it's it's just strange isn't it that um all of the sensors
11:01stopped
11:01working at that one point we can't think of any other explanation frankly but uh you know i won't be
11:07there regrettably but leone will be there and you'll be a pretty good hat no of course we'd like to
11:12do more
11:13but the challenge is that burford sewers are basically victorian does anyone actually work here
11:19it's an unmanned facility yeah it should be unpeopled really shouldn't it
11:25do they have unpeopled works in victorian times
11:27but we do have a state-of-the-art network of senses which uh track all the treated fluid and
11:36effluent
11:36through the works so um nobody nobody works here the sensors automatically transmit data to our
11:45waste operation control center in reading 24 hours a day oh that's what we call the telemetry
11:53and what happens if something breaks down oh so our works are serviced by a team of mobile engineers
12:00if a piece of kit malfunctions a trigger will sensor an alarm and an engineer is dispatched within two
12:07hours all right oh in here is where the engineers log books live they uh keep a record of anything
12:17that happens in one of these but um stuff up here this is the really exciting part so this is
12:21all the
12:22live real-time data being uploaded from the plants yes i can see it's quite extensive isn't it you can
12:29see the information coming through can't you yeah it's funny because like you know all the data's being
12:37pumped out you can see it but actually no one's looking at it you could save a bit of electricity
12:42there couldn't you what's that over there you've got um sort of cafe no that is our dedicated
12:48breakout zones you know for teas coffees relaxation um yeah it's inviting inviting isn't it yeah no it's
12:56nice i like it it's just nobody's here to enjoy the tea oh no no well thank god that would
13:02mean
13:02something's going wrong all right thank you great yeah great oh sorry there's a hole there did anyone
13:11mention that we've been invited to the town hall in burford the commander wants us all there it's really
13:17exciting actually you know we think it's important that we hold our hands up when mistakes are made
13:26did you see see her face like you do like i can't believe it and we can ask for all
13:35the
13:35telemetry you know they've got to give it to us that's that's hundreds of thousands of data points
13:40and everything that goes on in the works right right just but try not to get too excited well
13:46i'm just saying i'm just saying calm down
13:54okay have you been giving her plenty of liquids yes yeah been keeping her warm yes did everything you
14:02said okay okay and are there any more symptoms yes she's been bleeding from her backside doctor
14:11i'm calling an ambulance
14:16so look i've got the telemetry for burford and i've deciphered the engineer's handwriting 27th of
14:25december engineer's name is michael lazarus
14:31it turns out here that eight minutes past five on the morning of the 27th the alarm got triggered at
14:39the works um the communications had failed but it must have been intermittent because at eight minutes
14:47past six the center got a message to say that both the main inlet pumps had 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
15:13three alarms sounding obviously they've dispatched an engineer
15:19not for five and a half hours
15:26wet pumps one and two both failed return liquor pump failed balancing tank full untreated sewage tank
15:33full effluent chamber flooded i don't need this
15:45the storm tank's filled to the top all the sewage is flushing into the river
15:52set
15:59return liquor pump reset might fail again
16:04i don't know how long this is gonna hold
16:07trying my best here
16:10everything's failing he did what he could to patch things up
16:13but by then
16:15it'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
16:27and then the oxidation tank failed on the 28th the rotation arms packed up on the 29th
16:35burford was falling apart they couldn't handle all the sewage it was taken in so it was just
16:40flashing everything into the river and 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 a lord
17:00the results are back from the lab
17:03the results are back from the lab it's quite serious
17:05yes 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
17:23it's possible that the virus could attack heather's kidney functions which might have serious
17:29consequences for other organs
17:40this was really about a temporary malfunction to the alarm we think at least partly caused by the
17:47heavy rainfall that day rather than any actual interruption to the treatment process so what i'd
17:53like to do sorry sorry can i um can i say a few words commander yes of course there was
17:59no heavy rain um
18:02in fact um
18:05didn't rain at all
18:07if 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
18:18lazarus's logs is that the alarms were in fact uh functioning as normal they were triggered as soon
18:26as the flooding began and the thing is mr lazarus was not dispatched to the works for more than five
18:33hours the plant was falling apart it couldn't treat the sewage it was taking in and so it was just
18:40pumping
18:40it all out directly into the river well um thanks so much ash and to you peter it does look
18:52as though
18:53i've been misinformed and i intend to get to the bottom of this and i'll be putting my thumb on
19:01whoever
19:01so what are you going to do about what these two gentlemen have said what's going to happen now
19:05i think that we are we're both shocked absolutely shocked to hear that information because you've
19:12said one thing they've actually backed up with evidence something completely the opposite our river
19:19you're just dumping in and just covering everything up and making money and what's the long-term
19:25problems with the wildlife the fish and the birds what's happening with those the ecological welfare
19:31of our rivers and our waterways is something that we find incredible absolutely and what are you
19:37doing so that's nothing you're you're polluting our water i wouldn't even let my dog scream in the
19:43river now it's disgusting it is uh our highest highest priority that we will be fixing this
19:49as soon as possible i can assure you from all of us at thames water we are working night and
19:54day
19:55well i think we need to have a deep breath i do i do as well and thank you sir
19:59thank you for
20:00thank you thank you thank you very much for the meeting thank you shall we go outside yes i think
20:07i think he just lied to us just straight up and down to our faces oh no he said he
20:13was misinformed
20:14princess diane's equerry i mean what is that by the way i don't know it helps when people lie
20:21it's how you know they've got something to hide
20:40i mean it's it's ammonia we need to keep an eye out because that's going to read high right after
20:46they've dumped the sewage fuck me it's it's it is actually like one of your cases isn't it not
20:52really no it's more real-time monitoring of the river and the outflow pipes as well
21:01so the question is is burford acting alone because there's what seven seven seven uh works along the
21:11wind rush so we need to know if burford is an outlier you know single failing plant like a lone
21:18assassin just killing everything that lives in the water or or are they more like burford well i mean
21:25i suppose 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 all the telemetry exchanges between the control
21:47center and the works at north beach church hambrough whitney and
21:54i 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 i woke up this morning it was like that
22:43feels a bit
22:43weird well don't you think that jala should take a look at that i mean she is she is a
22:47chemist isn't
22:47she i know she's a chemist i live with her okay so you know that they sent me all these
22:52uh data flows
22:53in the works at whitney and at church hanborough yeah but what i've done i've converted the program
22:59that i built for the fetal uh alcohol kids what happened there was that the mothers they were being
23:10paid in wine so most of their children had fetal alcohol syndrome what i did was that i took i
23:18took
23:18thousands of photographs of these fas kids and so by showing the machine hundreds of these faces of
23:27these unborn children we taught it to spot the features of fetal alcohol syndrome in the womb
23:41so when the program sees it 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 now birth does most of his heavy lifting during early
23:56morning just before everyone goes to work right and and then again in the evening when they come back
24:02home so you can see the uh flows of treated effluent hitting uh the daily peaks and troughs now
24:10that's when the penny dropped the thing is that is just like
24:15the contours on a baby's face by showing the machine nine years of this flow data i've taught
24:24it to recognize when the the usual flows they don't they don't show up when the everyday flows are
24:33missing well they're not treating the sewage and if they're not treating the sewage there's nowhere for
24:39it 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 i
25:17think have you been in the river again yeah yeah did you have any cuts yeah yeah i pricked my
25:26finger
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 antibiotics
26:01might not work on you so they might have to try different types of medication on you
26:07ah god hold on
26:13what's that what are you doing i'm just drawing on you
26:18why because if it if it gets bigger then we will know
26:22that looks worse now so that's where she drew the marker and that's how much
26:28bigger it's got in like two days bloody hell and that is just from putting your hand
26:33in the river yeah i'm an idiot we know that but i mean if it's doing that to your hand
26:39just just
26:40think about what it's doing to all the creatures that live in the river exactly what was it you wanted
26:44to show me oh yeah well you know i got all this data through from uh north leach you know
26:49are we on
26:50to the wheat sheaf there oh yeah that was overpriced for what it was well i mean you you thought
26:55so but
26:55anyway look they must have sent this by mistake because i'm pretty sure they haven't read it why why
27:01do you say that because it says here that the works at north leach they haven't treated any sewage for
27:07three and a half months so so either either the good people of north richard have been holding it
27:13in for three and a half months so now i know they did not do that because i have the
27:20log books and
27:21north leach is on michael lazarus's beat
27:24i fucking hate my life
27:38site 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 biofilters 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
28:25that's completely full site still heavily flooded
28:30hunting flood war out of stormland roadside flooding believed to have been caused by this
28:38oh
28:39oh
28:40fuck off
28:42oh
28:42for
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 we're either backing up or we're dumping it
29:07straight 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
29:36so look
29:38there's two works and they're a few miles of each other
29:42both rotting into the sludge both dumping illegally we've got to get this to the environment agency
29:48they've got prosecuting powers what do you mean
29:50well they don't have to show their evidence to the police these are crimes
29:54they can prosecute privately
29:57so they can just just take temps to court yes
30:01they're the sewage police
30:05can anyone else do that post office the post office that's unusual
30:11i can see that your your swelling's gone down
30:14yeah yeah the antibiotics are kicking in
30:17thank god
30:19and it's about keeping us a little bit more local
30:24sorry i'm just going to fold this up actually
30:28we want to strip out as much unnecessary regulation as possible
30:33so under operator self-monitoring we're going to be asking the water companies
30:39to monitor their own environmental performance
30:44flagging any breaches to us as a priority
30:47um sorry i i don't understand so um
30:51you you want water companies to monitor their own pollution
30:55yeah it's about shifting the burden of regulation onto the companies
31:01and asking the water companies if there's been a pollution to give us the details
31:09hang on just just to be clear
31:12you want us to ask the water companies to tell us when they've dumped sewage
31:21it'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
31:33so you want us to stop visiting sewage works
31:36no no no no we'll still be doing on-site inspections yeah of course um provided that
31:42we give the company two weeks notice of our visit yeah but that's a problem that is a problem
31:46because well sorry again yeah um but if we give the water companies two weeks notice yeah
31:52they'll just clean up before we get there i mean it's it it is an honor system so i if
31:58the
31:59companies say that there hasn't been an incident i i don't think we should go looking for reasons
32:04to challenge that so what you're saying is regulate yourselves and then just let us know if you've
32:12committed any crimes
32:18yeah thanks so much okay see you
32:26to julia simpson area director environment agency dear julia i live in oxfordshire
32:34near the river windrush my neighbor professor peter hammond and i have been gathering evidence of
32:39sewage discharges into our river by thames water we'd like to bring what we've learned to the attention
32:45of the environment agency dear julia we'd like to invite you to meet some members of our group to
32:52discuss issues of sewage pollution dear julia we are going to take a trip down the river on foot
32:58and by boat looking at possible sources of sewage pollution would the environment agency be
33:03interested dear julia we 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 june
33:192018 2018. she's got an mbe and a bloody big salmon why is she taking so long to get back
33:29to us
33:30doesn't she realize we're doing her job for her i don't know i might put in a complaint
33:57so
33:59so
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 into 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's job to tell you when they've dumped sewage?
34:57To report potential pollution incidents, yes.
35:02What 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?
35:19No, absolutely.
35:21We inspect the treatment works. Yes, 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
35:38around 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.
36:16Sorry.
36:17We'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,
36:35a 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 every 16 years.
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
37:24and everything that reads on from that,
37:26from your kingfishers to everything.
37:28You've absolutely ruined this place,
37:30and you should be bloody well ashamed of yourself.
37:33Yes!
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.
38:22Uh, is it Mr Lazarus?
38:25My name's Ash Smith.
38:27This is my colleague, Professor Peter Hammond.
38:29We're doing some research on Thames water.
38:31And, uh, 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.
38:52I know it's not easy, sir.
38:54We appreciate it so much.
38:55I can't tell you.
38:56I'm not a grass, okay?
38:58So, I did grass on my mate like in year eight,
39:00back 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.
39:05Yeah.
39:06You told me that as well.
39:06That's made me nervous.
39:07This is not grass.
39:08Grassing is like when you grass on your mates,
39:10and blowing the whistle.
39:11What's that?
39:12Whistle blowing is when you, like,
39:13grass on your boss.
39:14Right.
39:16We've got to start.
39:17Um, all right.
39:18Check 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, that's the Australian hedge fund.
39:44It's known as the millionaire's factory.
39:47Such are the reputed riches of many of Macquarie's key executives.
39:50It's a 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.
39:58The first thing they did was sell our offices and then rent them back to us.
40:03What?
40:04Wrong-uns.
40:05They make Del Boy look like a fucking amateur.
40:07Then they said that we had to get management clearance to buy pens.
40:12Right to the top to buy a biro.
40:15Not even a parka, 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 do you do?
40:23Normally, 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 going to hold.
40:29What's a collar?
40:30It's just like sticking plaster.
40:31It's not going to hold.
40:32It's a temporary fix.
40:33The pipe's still rotten.
40:34Okay?
40:35It's going to 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 going to 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.
40:53You know why?
40:54They're like dodgy house flippers.
40:56They're going to go in there, it's still rotten inside,
40:58and they flip it, they're out.
41:00That's why I banked with 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, Ricky?
41:14I started working for Thames when I was 16.
41:16On 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.
41:44I'm not proud to admit that.
41:47And I feel guilty, you know?
41:49I see people swimming in these rivers,
41:52and their kids swim in the rivers.
41:54What am I supposed to do? I know what goes in there.
41:55I'll put it in there.
41:58We're at tipping point here, fellas.
42:03So we have run the brain tests.
42:07Heather's brain has lost the ability to control her vital organs,
42:10and unfortunately, they are failing.
42:15I'm really very sorry.
42:18But I think it's time we consider turning off her ventilators.
42:43Heather's brain is this?
42:44I think it's time we have to do all the work,
42:46but we can't help her feel.
43:09Our
43:09I'm 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
43:17in our bit of Devon.
43:19One of our group was recently given these,
43:22which we thought you should see.
43:29A girl of eight may have been the first person in Britain
43:33to have contracted fatal E. coli poisoning from raw sewage.
43:38Ten other people, including four children,
43:41who all visited the beach on July the 28th,
43:45were also struck down by the same bacterial strain.
43:51Heather Preen died of E. coli.
44:03If you'd like, we could bring her over to you.
44:09Here we go.
44:11Here we go.
44:13All right.
44:14Here we go.
44:16All right.
44:17I'll just leave you together for a little while now, OK?
44:25All right.
44:39You're all right.
44:42You're all right.
44:56There we go.
44:57It's all right.
44:57OK.
44:58There we go.
45:00All right.
45:02There we go.
45:04Be careful with me.
45:05It's OK.
45:06We're fine.
45:07Come on.
45:07There we go.
45:09There we go.
45:11galaxy
45:21Took him three or 3 days.
45:34No zweite.
45:34Oh, no emergencies.
45:35He's ready saying.
45:35You are ready to sit tomorrow,
45:36I'll...
45:37Take these hands off the ceiling.
45:37Have you seen your кровacy?
45:40I'll kill you.
45:41You're so sorry about getting in.
45:54All right, then.
46:09So, you know how I taught the machine to look for the anomalies
46:14in Whitney and Church Hamburger?
46:16Yeah, right.
46:17Well, have you been free jazzing 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...
46:28You do know that when the machine sees an abnormality,
46:32it can only mean one thing, that it's dumping sewage.
46:35Yes.
46:35Okay, so, in the nine years that I've dated for,
46:41these two works alone, Whitney and Church Hamburger,
46:44they've dumped sewage a thousand times.
46:51These aren't accidents, Ash.
46:54It's a policy.
46:58This is starting to look like organised crime.
47:11Oh, fuck.
47:14No, this isn't right.
47:16That's shit.
47:19No, this ain't right.
47:20That'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,
47:31then you need to shut down the beach.
47:33That's not gonna happen.
47:33I 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 Health.
47:42We'll close the beach before this happens to somebody else.
47:46With their kids, with fishing nets, sitting amongst turds.
47:50Reuben!
47:52Come on.
47:54Reuben!
47:55I need another whistleblower.
48:04Now, let's go.
48:04Now, let's go.
48:08Now.
48:11Are you a part of the nuestra?
48:26Now, let's go.
48:27Now, let's go.
48:27Well, we're on.
48:27Now, let's go.
48:27Now, let's go.
48:27Now, let's go.
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