Readers give their views on action to be taken following a privatised water company being fined for dumping sewage into the sea
Your stories on water pollution (Southern Water fined record £90m for deliberately pouring sewage into sea, 9 July) and Phillip Inman’s analysis (England’s water system: the last of the privatised monopolies – for now, 9 July) clearly show how stupid and disastrous the Tory privatisation of our water supply system was, and the fact that these companies have run up massive debts shows how private enterprise works. They are great at finding a hundred different shirt colours, but useless at running utilities. They exist to make profits, not provide vital public services.
And I believe something else you have reported on frequently – fatbergs – are another side effect of their activities. I haven’t used a chip pan for decades, and most businesses are reasonably responsible about their waste, so I assume cutting maintenance to the minimum has led to this problem.
