Get lost Southern Water!
with the editor To receive the editor’s monthly email newsletter, go to our website: www.pbo.co.uk Waste water gets more column inches in PBO than in any other boating magazine I can think of. Discharging black water from leisure boats in the UK is very lightly regulated, but promoting best practice among readers even above and beyond the legal requirements has always felt like the right thing to do. Toxic Southern Water felt differently for decades and has been fined over £90m for its crimes against the rivers and coastal areas of the South and South East. See page 8 of News for the gory details, while on page 18 Sam Llewellyn suggests, satirically, that maybe it’s time to just privatise the sea completely. But it’s clear where Southern Water’s priorities lie: the image below…