Paul Powlesland
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Sep 18, 2026
Can lawyers save the planet?
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Helen CzerskiHOST
Why is there sewage coming out of there? Is it a leak? Is it a deliberate release?

Paul PowleslandGUEST
The practical, physical answer is that basically there's, um, what's called cross connections.

Paul PowleslandGUEST
So there's breakages in the sewer network that allow sewage to come from the network straight into the tributary, then into the Roding.

Paul PowleslandGUEST
There's what's called misconnections, where people are plumbing their sewage and, you know, bathroom basins straight into the surface water, which goes into the river.

Paul PowleslandGUEST
There's also a, a landfill from the 1970s which is pouring raw ammonia leachate straight into the river as well.

Paul PowleslandGUEST
Those are the practical reasons, but the, the reality of why this is happening is because th- the way the river is seen in our current system.
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Helen CzerskiHOST
So should all rivers be individually be given rights, Paul, or do you think someone should nationally give all the rivers rights? Like, how does this work? Does it work best when it comes from every individual local community, or does it work best when there's some kind of national decision that all our rivers are gonna have rights?