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We want to improve the sea water quality in Deal and Walmer. Want to know more? Read and sign our petition https://www.change.org/p/clean-deal-walmer-coastal-waters 🌊🌊

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Save our Seas Deal and Walmer @sosdaw.bsky.social · Jan 21

Please take some time to read and sign this important petition www.change.org/p/clean-deal...

Sign the Petition

Clean Deal & Walmer coastal waters

www.change.org

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Save our Seas Deal and Walmer @sosdaw.bsky.social · 2d

Rotary Club of Deal have confirmed the 2025 Boxing Day Dip will not go ahead due to water quality. Should Southern Water donate £6k to local good causes of Deal
and Walmer as recompense?

#SouthernWater #PollutionEvents

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12d

Since privatisation England's water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends.

90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts.

90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends.

Public ownership would make a difference.

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

leftfootforward.org

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 12d

There was almost one discharge into our waterways every 30 seconds in 2024.

Thousands of people fell sick from contaminated water while our biodiversity is depleted.

💙Our waterways are the arteries and veins of the earth.
If we pollute those waterways, life will die.

📸: World Water Wedding

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Save our Seas Deal and Walmer @sosdaw.bsky.social · 22d

Pollution risk warning! ‼️

Save our Seas Deal and Walmer @sosdaw.bsky.social · 22d

Environment Agency - Pollution Rosk warning ⚠️ just published now!
View this location on the Safer Seas & Rivers Service:

app.sas.org.uk/location/549... app.sas.org.uk/location/549...

Alert in Deal Castle

A Pollution Risk Alert has been issued today by the EA

app.sas.org.uk

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Save our Seas Deal and Walmer @sosdaw.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 Important news for Deal! The mega reading 9900 in July being discounted! 🚨

This is positive as we attempt to improve on our ‘poor’ water quality rating.

There’s much more work to do, as discussed on BBC South East this week

#Deal #WaterQuality #SouthernWater

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Sep 12

Lives of the super rich

Tankers used to transport water to fill private lakes. Normal people face shortages due to droughts.

The same class opposes wealth taxes and higher wages for workers.

They have friends in high places.

Southern Water bans tankers doing runs to US billionaire's lake

Tankers taking water for US billionaire Stephen Schwarzman have been told to stop by Southern Water.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emily 🌱 🌍 💚 @epicemily.bsky.social · Sep 9

WTF is wrong with this stupid government?

@openjuls @openjuls.bsky.social · Sep 9

Bottom trawling is deemed a decimation worth choosing.
Emma Reynolds, DEFRA minister, is intent on exposing UK marine life to unimaginable harm which will decimated living organisms.

In English protected waters, Starmer’s gov rules marine life as ’dispensable’. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules

Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Sep 9

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules

Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider

www.theguardian.com

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Kent @kentuk.bsky.social · Sep 8

Multi-million-pound projects to cut storm overflows

#Kent #BBCNews

🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

Multi-million-pound Southern Water projects to cut storm overflows

Towns receiving the investment are Queenborough, Sittingbourne, Herne Bay, Faversham and Whitstable.

www.bbc.com

Save our Seas Deal and Walmer @sosdaw.bsky.social · Sep 3

Keep you updated

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Save our Seas Deal and Walmer @sosdaw.bsky.social · Sep 3

Not surprising with all the run we’ve had, only that it wasn’t earlier…
Environment Agency Pollution Risk Warning #DealCastleBeach

environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles...

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Worthing Climate Action Network @worthingcan.bsky.social · Aug 30

Shameful. 🙁
Lough Neagh’s recurrent algal blooms, which choke aquatic life, are caused by an overload of phosphorous and nitrogen. 62% derives from farm runoff, fertilisers and animal waste, 24% comes from creaking wastewater treatment facilities.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK’s largest lake faces environmental crisis as rescue plans stall

Toxic algae cases in Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh have tripled since last year, as local fishers’ incomes plummet

www.theguardian.com

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Worthing Climate Action Network @worthingcan.bsky.social · Aug 30

It’s still the holidays and the sea around West Sussex and the Isle of Wight is not a good place to be.
#sewagepollution
#drowninginshit
#dontgointhewater
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@sascampaigns.bsky.social
#westsussex

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Save our Seas Deal and Walmer @sosdaw.bsky.social · Aug 29

The Environment Agency has just given a pollution risk alert for Deal Castle Beach (Thanks to the Surfers against sewage app for the alert).

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · Aug 27

Are the government getting tough with water companies? Or is Rachel Reeves appointing Thames Water’s reputation manager as a government adviser?

(It’s the latter)
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/rachel-reeves-appoints-adviser-treasury-links-thames-water-lobbyists-zqxccjmt7

Rachel Reeves’s new adviser has links to Thames Water lobbyists

Jenny Scott will work at the Treasury and continue with her role at Apella Advisors — a firm she co-founded — which advocates for the water firm

www.thetimes.com

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Save our Seas Deal and Walmer @sosdaw.bsky.social · Aug 27

Today we presented our petition to Dover District Council. It will be officially received by the overview a scrutiny committee.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Aug 26

OFWAT probes exec pay at water companies. Yorkshire Water bypassed rules, paid execs through offshore parent company.

Govt was told legislation was weak.

Why was govt/Ofwat not proactive?

End the cat-and-mouse games. Nationalise water. Let customers and employees vote on exec pay.

Ofwat probes payments to water bosses after Yorkshire row

The regulator, which is due to be abolished by the government, has written to water companies to investigate whether they have paid executives via offshore vehicles, Sky News learns.

news.sky.com

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · Aug 26

Tell the government to STOP allowing sewage to flow into our precious rivers:

action.greenpeace.org.uk/toxic-sewage...

Sign the petition

Water companies MUST pay to fix their mess and stop contaminating our soil!

action.greenpeace.org.uk

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · Aug 26

🚨BREAKING: England's largest lake, Windermere, is covered in FAECAL BACTERIA according to a new study.

Water companies have turned our most ICONIC lake into an open sewer while profiting BILLIONS.

Who else thinks this is SICK?

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Save our Seas Deal and Walmer @sosdaw.bsky.social · Aug 24

Looking forward to presenting our petition to Dover District Council this week! ✊🏻
Please sign now if you haven’t already, thank you.

www.change.org/p/clean-deal...

Sign the Petition

Clean Deal & Walmer coastal waters

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Aug 24

Hong Kong billionaire, owner of Northumbrian Water, touted as Thames Water bidder.

He won't provide necessary infrastructure investment.

Any private owner would want profit, main cause of the crisis. Profits go abroad, misery stays home.

Public ownership is the only way ahead.
archive.ph/NCYXf

Chinese suitor ‘would cut billions from Thames Water investment’

CK Infrastructure touted as likely buyer if debt-laden water company is nationalised

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Save our Seas Deal and Walmer @sosdaw.bsky.social · Aug 22

We will be handing our petition to Dover District Council next week followed by Kent County Council, Environment Agency and Southern Water. Please sign ✍️

Save our Seas Deal and Walmer @sosdaw.bsky.social · Jan 21

Please take some time to read and sign this important petition www.change.org/p/clean-deal...

Sign the Petition

Clean Deal & Walmer coastal waters

www.change.org

Save our Seas Deal and Walmer @sosdaw.bsky.social · Aug 20

act.38degrees.org.uk/act/end-the-...

End the Pay Tricks: Hold Water Companies Accountable

🚨 Water bosses are dodging the ban on bonuses that was meant to put an end to their huge pay packets - while sewage floods our rivers and seas and our bills soar. That's why I've signed the petition t...

act.38degrees.org.uk

Save our Seas Deal and Walmer @sosdaw.bsky.social · Aug 18

😳 if only this were tongue in cheek.