I’ll tell you what really ought to happen, water companies should start using their millions of profits to start making a modernised sewage system that can cope with modern demands, rather than pumping all manner of **** into our waterways and buying their shareholders new Ferraris each year.
I knew the font of all knowledge would come to the rescue (not606) not you OLM. Anyway so all that means is it must be the cows farting and belching that causes all the problems.
If there’s one thing that should never have been privatised, it’s the water. It’s not like it has allowed for any competition, as we’re all locked into a provider geographically. Its literally just put the destiny and health of public waterways into the hands of profit driven private business, which could be owned by anyone, anywhere.
I read a really interesting piece on the gent who invented the current sewer systems and how it was the adopted across the UK. It also went into how it's now a issue today and how it all works etc. The gent was joseph bazalgette. If you have some times have a read on him... I'll see if I can find the piece I read later
2nd useless fact of the day-They dropped the 'U' and just became known as the 'Vapors' for some bizarre reason?
Apparently, they thought it might make them easier to market in America, but Turning Japanese only got to No.36 in the Billboard Chart, so I'm not sure that it made much difference.
Bazalgette is a real unsung hero - as many civil engineers are - his work in designing and building the sewers in London essentially eradicated Cholera and Typhoid from the capital. The obvious benefits of the system were quickly replicated across the country.
one of terry pratchett's books was set in the 1800s and included a fictionalised meeting of people such as bazalgette and others plus subsequent events.
Love Terry Pratchett books Once went to Waterstones to get his new book and have it signed by him. He was really pleasant and chatty My daughter had her arm in a sling so he signed that too
