;dirty business' drama about the scandal of water companie pouring sewagein our rivers, have you seen it?

The lack of investment in infrastructure by the privatised industry is scandalous. But I have yet to see any evidence that Environment Agency staff have accepted bribes from the water companies. I think there woyld be rather more media interest if they had . .

It's the utilities game.

♦Bid for contracts that benefit your company.
♦Fire everyone who does a decent job to 'save' money.
♦When complaints start to attract regulator attention, make endless excuses and blame poor infrastructure while griping you need more public money to make it work.