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Perry1968 · M
They used to have a truck go around regular with a giant vacuum on it sucking out silted drains. Since the water board here has become privatised you rarely if ever see them. The prices have skyrocketed for the rain you pay for. All whilst the CEO is on 850. 000 per year before bonuses and has had a 300.000£ pay rise since 2022. The infrastructure is in tatters and as usual its all in the name of greed.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Perry1968 Many of the floods on land are sufficiently above sea-level anyway; from rivers overflowing, as well as blocked and overloaded drains.
I see all that selling of public services - by governments of both parties and based on mere economic theory - as a huge mistake. Though I thought roadside gully-emptying and ditch-clearing was normally a County Council not water company responsibility, but they've been successively starved of cash.
Also, in some places a lot of householders have not helped by hard-surfacing their front gardens to provide parking, but diverting the run-off down the drains instead of soakaways.
I see all that selling of public services - by governments of both parties and based on mere economic theory - as a huge mistake. Though I thought roadside gully-emptying and ditch-clearing was normally a County Council not water company responsibility, but they've been successively starved of cash.
Also, in some places a lot of householders have not helped by hard-surfacing their front gardens to provide parking, but diverting the run-off down the drains instead of soakaways.