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Why are our rivers and seas polluted by sewage?
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Debt is over 60 billion, 78 billion has been paid to shareholders since privatisation, and not enough investment in sewage infrastructure.
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A clear look at how monopoly incentives helped turn sewage into a national scandal.
The episode traces a sewage scandal with immediate human costs: polluted rivers and seas, swimmers falling ill, and water quality that can itself make people sick.
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If sewage headlines blur together, this episode traces the plumbing behind the scandal.
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