How the overseas owners of the UK’s water companies clean up by polluting our rivers | George Monbiot

Soiled seas and huge shareholder dividends: where has the £64bn borrowed by firms since privatisation gone?So that’s how they do it. I’d been wondering how, when more sewage has been entering our rivers than ever before, some of the water companies have managed to improve the ratio of the sewage they treat v the sewage that pours untreated from their storm overflows into our rivers and the sea. Now we know.It’s called “flow trimming”. Sounds innocuous, doesn&r