119. A New Settlement for Water
Britain’s infrastructure is struggling. We’ve seen stories of concrete falling down in schools, unreliable public transport, and an NHS at breaking point after chronic neglect and the Covid-19 pandemic. But little has captured people’s attention and activism like the damage and disrepair of our sewage system and the disastrous decisions of the companies that own our water. Currently we’re dealing with sewage in the rivers, rising bills, poorly managed companies that are increasingly “uninvest...