Sir Hugh Mydelton funded and overseen the construction of the New River, an artificial waterway, in 1613, to bring fresh water from springs in Hertfordshire to Islington’s reservoir.
The project was to ensure that Londoners have access to clean drinking water, rather than relying on brackish water on the River Thames to improve public health.
It hardly happened. There was a financial gain and the city needed a huge capital input before it became reluctant to make this investment. Where have you heard of it before?
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Drinking water is now available to everyone. However, the Thames River was nothing more than an open sewer and public health risk for Londoners. Between 1848 and 1866, a series of cholera epidemics killed almost 100,000 people.
In response, in 1875, civil engineer Joseph Basalgett heroically completed a sewer system in central London that helped ease the cholera epidemic while beginning to clean up the Thames.
How far has it regressed? There is little I have learned from these progressive times.
Science and technology have progressed at an incredible pace since the Enlightenment, but corporate greed has brought us back to the dark ages.
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The owners and shareholders of the essential utility in life have made profits on the planet accordingly, opening the door to the return of the plague of the old.
The Water Services Regulatory Authority (OFWAT) is tasked with overseeing the regulation of the privatised sewer industry in England and Wales.
Its role is perhaps to ensure that water companies protect and strengthen the environment for future generations.
But the green light given to the fisheries by the last administration to prioritize shareholder interests over river and beach health reveals who truly holds power in regulatory decisions.
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Certainly, rorder The last conservative government passed water companies allow sewage to continue to drain into rivers and oceans for the next 15 years.
Ash Smith of the group Windrush against sewage contamination (WASP), I responded to this instruction. “The regulator’s failure is now clear.
“I think the reason why a highly regulated water company has done so well by exploiting prisoner bill payers should be an important subject for the Secretary of State, who will ultimately be held responsible for the sewer scandal.
