[makomk]

Oh huh, a Guardian article about a protest about unsustainable tourism in Tenerife and the Canary islands and the environmental damage it's creating. Wonder if they're going to mention that an awful lof of those developments on Tenerife are illegally dumping all their sewage in the sea rather than building sewage treatment... nope.

For context, there's been a huge amount of anger in the UK that was basically kicked off by the Guardian about how the UK's seas and rivers are catastrophically polluted with sewage by our water companies, we're supposedly the dirty man of Europe now, privatisation and Brexit has ruined everything and it's all getting worse, to the point it's likely to influence the next election. One of the big headline stories involved a British windsurfing champion leaving because it's like "surfing in a sewer"... and moving to Tenerife, where sewage treatment is objectively far worse and as mentioned there are sewage systems that just dump all their sewage out into the sea basically everywhere. (This is something that was fixed in the mainland UK decades ago post-privatisation, and in fact seems to be one of the big infrastructure improvements that privatisation was done to get funding for.) The rest of the coverage has been about as founded in reality as that.

When looking for information on this, I even ran across people that were presumably from there complaining on a forum about this and how it'd probably only get fixed if British tourists found out about it and started objecting. Guess there's little chance of that.