Sarah Purnell, University of Brighton and James Edward Ebdon, University of Brighton The UK has around 1,500 individual river systems, totalling over 200,000 km in length. It’s common for sewers here to accept both untreated human waste and rain water in a combined system. Water and sewerage companies are permitted to release this wastewater into… Continue reading Sewage pollution: our research reveals the scale of England’s growing problem
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The tiny group controlling England’s water industry
At the top of the list of water profiteers is the CK Hutchinson group. This conglomerate is run by the family of Li Ka Shing, who at the last count was the 23rd richest person in the world. CK Hutchinson is run from Hong Kong but registered in the Cayman Islands, one of the many tax havens used by the group.