The UK’s Privatised Water Industry: Costly and Polluting

Nottingham – The sewage treatment infrastructure in cities was kick started by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, who in 1858, when the stink from the Thames in central London became so severe that MPs could not meet in the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, engineered an integrated sewer system to carry untreated waste and rain water from across London via an intersecting sewer to outfalls further down the...