Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Drain and gain: Inside the sewage scandal poisoning our waterways
Description: We have some of the worst river health standards in Europe – in large part due to raw sewage being pumped into our vital waterways. Is it too easy for water companies to get away with this? And does the Government have a plan to fix the issue? Jamie Woodward is a professor of physical geography at the University of Manchester. He joins Laura Makin-Isherwood in the Bunker to discuss.
“The water companies have ruthlessly exploited an under regulated system.” – Prof. Jamie Woodward
“The dumping of sewage has become routine, and there’s been a public outrage agai...