| > As a consequence of this there are some rivers, lakes and beaches in England + Wales that are now unsafe but which weren't before they were privatised. Carefully chosen words, someone has done their research! Thats what happens when new standards come into force and improve upon the old standards. https://environment.data.gov.uk/portalstg/home/item.html?id=... "The purpose of this dataset is to present a summary of bathing water compliance in England between 1988 and 2014 against the old bathing water directive (76/160/EEC), which was repealed on the 31/12/2014" However I'm not against better standards, but I am against some of the "engineered" methods used to gain those standards.... https://www.ciwem.org/the-environment/how-should-water-and-e.... As I was saying, some things are engineered.... |