Southern Water

Field archaeologist Raksha Dave is travelling to Port Slade to find out how post-excavation work following a Chichester dig is making sense of Britain's lost landscapes.

For the last two years, Southern Water have been laying a 10-kilometre pipeline, cutting through town and country, and they paid archaeologists south-east to monitor their work.

As they dug the areas where the pipes were to be laid, they found prehistoric hinges, Roman settlement and burial, and RAF bases from World War II.

But most intriguingly, they have unearthed a buried medieval village.

The irony here is that Sandown is one of the island's two main resort beaches, meaning the beach you are statistically most likely to swim at is one of the few that is only rated good rather than excellent.

Both Southern Water's own bathing report and the local news site On the White published these agency classifications, and their numbers match perfectly.

We had to use them because the environment agency's own web pages kept returning errors when we tried to access the raw data.

Finally, in this section, let's talk about health care realities.

So I can sort of see the point about this and to your also point about the local issues that he's faced.

in fact southern water which supplies water to the isle of sheppey said it was tackling the root causes pollution um through what was basically they claim is a record 8.9 billion investment program to cut incidents um whether that really is actually going to really manifest itself into better and cleaner waters we will have to see but i think it does raise the other issue doesn't it mr p which is Danny Dyer can raise this as a concern.

He doesn't have authority over government or any of the governing bodies in the utilities.

And so should it now be that the government needs to step in and start taking further action? Because this is something that's been going on for decades, not just recent times.

You're missing the £717.

Where's that come from? So it came from a property where Southern Water haven't been sending me.

I'm a bit old school.

I prefer a letter to show me the bill.

South West Water submitted its application on 6th October.

Southern Water applied on 31st July, held a public hearing on 25th August, and the Environment Agency says it's still awaiting the Secretary of State's decision.

Those are applications.

They are not rules in force.

So they've been warned.

On behalf of Southern Water in their defence, they have said in the past that they're committed to reducing storm overflows through their 10-year Clean Rivers and Seas Plan, and that's worth £1.5 billion.

And they say it's already starting to make a difference, along with some other measures that they've got in the pipeline.

Thank you very much.

local legends or local folklore.

So her friend wrestled as the head of Southern Water.

He's like the water board.

He's a real bad guy.

I like to think it's up to all of us to hunt down those decision points and actively engage with them.

I now work at Southern Water, which is challenging because Southern Water, as all water companies, have their reputation literally in the toilet, shall we say.

It's quite challenging working for a water company with that constant media messaging about how terrible they are.

But my job in Southern Water is around environmental improvement, water quality improvement, and working with communities and catchment partnerships.

I've been lucky to have found something really bold and big to do in each of the places I've worked.

And in Southern Water I think it is gonna be the catchment-based approach.

That sounds quite boring, but what it's really about is the water company working in partnership with the catchment partnerships, working very closely with those to generate real material environmental outcomes for all our river systems and groundwater systems, and use the weight of the water companies and the funding that moves through the water companies to deliver loads of interesting things that works for both parties really.

Watch this space, but I think there's loads to do on that, and it's gonna be quite exciting over the next few years.

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A property might be South East Water, or it might be another supplier like Southern Water.

So before you quote, and before you arrive on site, check the water supplier for that exact address.

Every job.