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Hi John,
A huff, and a puff, and the house came down. Thames Water is on the verge of collapse after their Chief Executive leaves unexpectedly. Water company finances make the headlines as we see the debt they've piled up, all whilst paying huge bonuses and shareholder dividends. A shambles. This is what happens when water companies are allowed to put profit before people and planet.
🔴 This week we met with Ofwat as part of the Dirty Money Campaign. We'll be sharing more on that soon.
Here's a July update from us.
FAT CATS SEWER RATS 💰 If you missed it, we handed our petition into OFWAT last week and showed our faces 🐀 at the water industry awards.
Click to watch the video.
Here's a deep dive on ending profit from plastic pollution, from our policy officer, Louise.
"We're calling for the government to deliver promises for schemes such as Extended Producer Responsibility which forces producers to be responsible for products until the end of their life."
Take a a look at some ocean news from June...
🌊 The sea is warming up and it's a threat to marine life - Unheard of marine heatwave off UK and Irish coasts poses serious threat.
🌊 In June, the United Nations adopted the High Seas treaty. This will be a big contributor to the 30% by 2030 goal for ocean protection.
🌊 Sewage scandal is being taken to the High Court. There are are two cases, one from the Good Law Project: The Good Law Project has been supporting Richard Haward's Oysters, the Marine Conservation Society and Hugo Tagholm in the challenge.
🌊 The second case is by Wildfish. How the High Court could bring a quick end to sewage pollution (inews.co.uk)
💩 There were 439 SEWAGE POLLUTION ALERTS in June💩
Across the UK, monitored by our Safer Seas and Rivers Service app.
For the ocean,
🌊 Jade, Communications Officer
