Waterways Protection

Channel 4’s Dirty Business is based on the decade-long investigation led by Ashley Smith of Windrush Against Sewage Pollution.

In this full-length interview, Ashley joins me to discuss the real story behind Thames Water, illegal sewage discharges, regulatory failure and the wider UK water crisis.

Recorded shortly before the broadcast of Dirty Business, this conversation goes deeper into the evidence, governance issues and systemic weaknesses reshaping the UK water system.

Watch the full interview here:
https://youtu.be/p7Hkg1em20Q

Channel 4’s Dirty Business: The Real Investigation into Thames Water | Ashley Smith Ashley Smith, whose decade-long investigation forms the basis of Channel 4’s Dirty Business, joins host Philip Greenwood for the hard launch of People VS Sew...

Water Company False Narratives (4): Blame the Public

Water companies routinely blame sewage pollution on the public.
Wet wipes. Fats. Oils.

This framing shifts responsibility away from system capacity, long-term underinvestment, and engineering failure, and places it onto individual behaviour instead.

Misuse in large populations is predictable.
Robust systems are designed to handle it.

This clip explains why the “blame the public” narrative exists and what it is used to hide.

From People Vs Sewage Podcast.