London. Thousands of people took to the streets in London this Sunday demanding measures to clean the rivers and seas of the United Kingdom.
Participants in this “March for Clean Water”, many of them dressed in blue, displayed banners reading “we are drowning in s…” and calling on the government to “stop poisoning Britain’s rivers”.
Britain’s water sector, privatized in 1989, is in crisis due to underinvestment in a sewage system that largely dates back to the Victorian era.
Protesters are demanding a review of water regulator Ofwat and the Environment Agency, and stricter action on water companies that fail to comply with existing pollution rules.
According to the environmental defense organization River Action, which encouraged protesters to bring a sample of a body of water important to them, about 15,000 people joined the march.
The new Labor government last month introduced legislation that will give regulators powers to impose tougher penalties, including jail terms, on water polluting companies and their managers.
“We agree that the system is not working. It is too complicated, too slow and does not help people or the environment,” said a spokesperson for Water UK, the sector’s professional association.
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