Is the River Thames a NO GO Area?
Reading about the UK Drowning Prevention Week and the “toothless” enforcement of polluters by the Environmental Agency in last week’s Express newspaper you do start to wonder which you should be more scared of!
Add to this Thames Water pleading poverty after paying out tens of millions to shareholders and the fact that the best the council can do, on behalf of the 150,000 residents of the Royal Borough, is send a few letters asking them to try harder!
It is rather pathetic and being an ex-Cllr I fully appreciate the frustrations of our ward Cllrs.
EA are hopeless. Perhaps a few million pounds could be generated if we had local enforcement and this could go into getting RBWM back on track with their flood defences, previously known as Channel One.
We need those responsible to stop sitting on their laurels and start making more of an effort to ensure the River Thames is clean enough to drink. That all school children are taught how to swim and have an appreciation of water currents and potential undercurrents in manmade lakes.
And whoever runs our water companies next because we can’t continue with this farcical approach to everyone’s general health & safety, that they take on responsibility for both. Ensuring every child in RBWM can swim open mouthed in The River Thames before any shareholders get a single penny.
Thank you.
Jon Davey
Community Champion
I have asked our local candidates for their thoughts but they haven’t got round to responding as yet…
