[pjbster]

This is tech debt, pure and simple.

https://news.sky.com/story/down-the-drain-what-went-wrong-wi...

The flaws in the sewerage system are fundamental and pervasive. It would be a national multi-generational effort to rebuild it all. It's going to be far cheaper to simply make swimming outdoors illegal and alter insurance guidelines to deny claims for water-borne health issues.

Stuff like this appears in UK newspapers all the time. It's just the think tanks putting controversial ideas out there so that public outrage can be gauged. This then informs government policy going forward.

[oliwarner]

This is what happens when you privatise monopolies. They're not looking at a 100y plan, they're paying shareholders and [unnecessary] c-level positions.

What's surprising is that it lasted 35 years.