• Reddfugee42@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    In Florida, rain gutters that flow to open waterways are marked as such with special reminders / warnings. Perhaps that would be a decent compromise here. Then one can’t say they didn’t know.

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      22 hours ago

      The UK only has one type of sewer, so the storm drains flow into the same waste processing plants as the toilets. However, those waste processing plants then declare an emergency due to unexpected high volumes and just dump everything into open waterways if it’s rained within the past week, which, as it’s the UK, it almost always has. There are multiple issues at play here, and they’re all dumb and foreseeable if you assume companies will do whatever is most profitable without breaking the law, and none of them are this person’s fault.