Environmental campaigners fear irreversible damage if Southern Water’s water recycling plan on the south coast goes ahead.
Libby Alexander, on behalf of the Save Our South Coast Alliance, explains the situation.
Libby Alexander, on behalf of the Save Our South Coast Alliance, explains the situation.
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00:00Could you introduce yourself please? I'm Libby Alexander and I'm from Soska, Save
00:05Our South Coast Alives. And tell us a little bit more about why we're here
00:09today. We're here because Southern Water wants to recycle their Bud's Farm sewage
00:15into our drinking water and they're going to be using the Portsmouth Water
00:21Reservoir, Thanet Reservoir, for these purposes which means that they have
00:26the possibility of completely polluting our spring-fed Bedminster Springs
00:32chalk streams into the reservoir. The whole point about the reservoir was that
00:36it was going to be clean and pure for our drinking water but this is not now
00:40going to be the case. So tell us a bit more about how you feel these issues
00:47could be either stopped or perhaps mitigated. What can we do? You can contact
00:52Soska because there is a consultation paper out from Southern Water and we are
00:57fighting this but we have only until the 23rd of July to do so. So if you'd be
01:02good enough, if you're very interested in this, to contact at soska.org.uk
01:09and we will give you all the information. It's a very difficult, complicated
01:13situation and Southern Water are making sure that we don't know about it.
01:17Okay, well thank you for bringing it to our attention and good luck with with
01:22your work to stop this. Thank you.