• Repossess6855@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 years ago

      Oh my lord that past part about the amount of sewage…. How in the world was this missed? How on earth is that even possible ? This is such gross negligence it’s unreal. Imagine swimming in what was essentially sewage, with such a high concentration too no les.

      • Mossy Feathers (She/Her)@pawb.social
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        It wasn’t missed. Iirc they knew about it and were warned about it. They just decided not to do anything and then pretend to be surprised when something bad happened.

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          Dealing with the fallout was most likely much cheaper than canceling the event.

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      Brexit means brexit. We won’t have Brussels bureaucrats telling us to not dump shit in our rivers!

      I mean, experts say shit is bad for you, but we’ve had enough of experts don’t ya know!

      And if anything, British shit will make our rivers even more British by displacing any water that comes over here from overseas.

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    How do you even solve that issue? It’s a beach. Do they just wait until the water returns back to normal? Or are they going to dump chemicals to clean it?

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      They should stop any further dumping of sewage into the waterways and then monitor the rivers until they are clean… But they’re not going to do that because the companies dumping couldn’t give less of a shit

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      Well it’s a regulation (lack of) problem amongst the water companies, so that is where you would start