Chalenge Seven Trent

Ingyme

Why are we paying Water companies such as Seven Trent who are actually making millions whilst breaking laws and providing a very poor service? Why are we paying to keep a few people very rich for a service of cleaning and transition of an act of nature? They do not provide the water as it is rain water given to them for free, all they do is clean it and pipe it to our homes and it is questionable whether they clean it as they put questionable chemicals in drinking water and as for piping it to us they have many leaks losing tons and tons of water.... lets look at some revealing evidence in my next post...

Ingyme

Seven Trent Water

Revenue £1,770.6 million (2012)


‘Antony Paul Wray’ Chief Executive Salary £1,420, 600 (2012)


On 4 October 2012, Severn Trent Water Ltd pleaded guilty at Redditch Magistrates’ Court to discharge of sewage into the Elmbridge Brook at Fairfield, near Bromsgrove, without an environmental permit.
The company was fined £25,000, and ordered to pay £5262.26 in costs, along with a £15 victim surcharge. The charge was brought by the Environment Agency under Regulation 38(1)(a) and Regulation 12(1) of the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010.


Severn Trent has been ordered to pay more than £100,000 for supplying water that was unfit for human consumption or had not been disinfected properly.
The company admitted 16 charges in a hearing at Chesterfield Magistrates' Court yesterday, which was brought against the firm on behalf of the Secretary of State for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.


Severn Trent fined £15,000 for Bishop's Castle pollution Water giant Severn Trent has been fined £15,000 after admitting allowing toxic ammonia to pollute a watercourse in Shropshire in what was described as management failings.

Despite improvements, according to Ofwat, the percentage of leakages in 2010-2011 was the highest in England and Wales at 27% representing 0.5 billion litres (500,000 tonnes) per day.

In July 2008, OFWAT confirmed that it had fined Severn Trent Water £35.8 million for deliberately providing false information to Ofwat and for delivering poor service to its customers.

In 2008 the Company was fined £2m (reduced from a previous judgement of £4m) for poor information reporting and covering up misleading leakage data.

In July 2007 the ‘Mythe Water Treatment Works’ near Tewkesbury became inundated with water from the ‘River Severn’ during the Summer 2007 United Kingdom floods. The water coming in to the plant was contaminated and this led to the loss of all running water for approximately 150,000 people in Cheltenham, Gloucester and Tewkesbury.

Don't take my word for it, check their wiki page for evidence and do a deep internet search to find these stories and more no doubt.

Ingyme

I am going to challenge their next Bill by letting them know that I will only be able to pay half in accordance with my low income and in accordance with moral judgement on all the evidence provided as I am paying a criminal business with several Guilty charges in a court of law. I will not refuse to pay but will start paying my able amount of half the amount, paying weekly, so it is noted that I am paying and I will offer to pay more when my finances improve to a decent amount of the equivalent to ‘Antony Paul Wray’ the Seven Trent Chief Executive's Salary of £1,420, 600 yearly. All will be hard for a judge to argue with and with no refusal to pay will be even harder for a court case and if a court case does occur then I will gladly attend and gain the media attention they will not want.

Ingyme

Note: They cannot cut off your water supply unless wanting a Human Rights case on their hands...

After almost a decade of sustained advocacy on the issue, on 3 August 2010, the General Assembly of the United Nations through Resolution A/RES/64/292 formally recognised “the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights.”

On 6 October 2010, the Human Rights Council, the highest ranking Human Rights body in the United Nations system, adopted by consensus resolution A/HRC/RES/15/9, which affirmed the prior recognition of the right to safe drinking water and sanitation by the General Assembly.
In addition, resolution A/HRC/RES/15/9 also clarified the legal basis of the right, stipulating that “the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation is derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as well as the right to life and human dignity.”
This means that the right to safe drinking water and sanitation is contained in legally binding human rights treaties and is therefore legally binding.
Numerous earlier human rights treaties, resolutions, declarations and other international instruments recognized the right to safe drinking water and sanitation.
Several human rights treaties contain explicit references to the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation. These include Article 14.2 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW, 1979), Article 24.2 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC, 1989), and Article 28 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD, 2006).
Another instrument that still is a key document for understanding the right to safe drinking water and sanitation is General Comment No. 15 issued by the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 2002.
General Comment No. 15 was the first document to authoritatively define the scope and content of the human right to water, as well as corresponding State obligations.

macman

And your point is?

Cardew

Ingyme wrote: »

Why are we paying Water companies such as Seven Trent QUOTE]

Because Maggie said we must! and got Parliament to pass the Water Act.

samsmoot

Ingyme wrote: »

Why are we paying Water companies such as Seven Trent

What's all this 'we' business?

macman

Cardew wrote: »

Ingyme wrote: »

Why are we paying Water companies such as Seven Trent QUOTE]

Because Maggie said we must! and got Parliament to pass the Water Act.

No to mention Community Charge (precursor of Council Tax). I always think it's ironic that the PM who introduced it is now presumably exempted from paying it on the grounds of SMI. Funny old world, isn't it?