Southern Water

Southern Water Legal Action: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Escalate Sewage Pollution Fight

February 22, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council, Southern Water and the Environment Agency faced residents and campaigners in the same room on Thursday 19 February, to discuss sewage [...]

Dymchurch Dippers Poem Calls Out Southern Water Sewage in the Bay

February 20, 2026 // 3 Comments

The Ballad Of The Beautiful Bay Spoiled by Dirty Water. The sun is shining, it’s a beautiful day,I want to swim across the bay,What’s that I spy in the water [...]

Southern Water Sewage: The Hidden Cost to Kent’s Sea Swimmers and Seaside Businesses

February 19, 2026 // 4 Comments

Updated: 20/02/26 @ 14:50 This is a long read, because the devil is in the detail — and, in this case, the detail is the difference between “a reassuring icon on a map” [...]

Hythe Bay Bathing Water Warnings: Sewage Pollution and E. coli from Hythe to Dungeness

February 13, 2026 // 0 Comments

Hythe Bay’s “no swim” problem didn’t start in the 2020s. It has a paper trail that runs from the mid-1970s, through the coliform “fail” tables of the 1980s, into [...]

Southern Water Bills Rise as Sewage Spills Persist: 50 Years of Warnings on the Kent Coast

February 1, 2026 // 2 Comments

Southern Water customers are being asked to pay more again, and the public justification is that the money will “fix” the system. From April, the average bill is due to [...]

South East Water Firms Lost 127.97 Billion Litres to Leaks in a Year — Targets Missed, Fines Paid, Customers Still Left Short

January 12, 2026 // 0 Comments

“Water is the driving force of all nature.” – Leonardo Da Vinci “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” – W.H.Auden Fresh water [...]

Southern Water’s 47% bill increase shows blatant disregard for ecological preservation and customer welfare

February 18, 2025 // 0 Comments

Southern Water (SW), a utility provider serving 2.6 million water customers and 4.7 million wastewater users across Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight, operates [...]

Part 2 – Land/Property Ownership by Companies & Organisations in Folkestone & Hythe District

January 31, 2025 // 0 Comments

Who owns the vast swathes of land and property in our district matters. It matters because land is a scarce resource – as Mark Twain put it, ‘they aren’t making it any [...]

Water, Water Everywhere, Much With Plops and Stink

April 13, 2024 // 3 Comments

This is a Guest Post On Wednesday 10th April 2024, I went along to a public meeting regarding the state of our local waterways and coast. The event was held in New [...]

For nearly 50 years local water companies have failed to cut the crap hitting our beaches

April 6, 2024 // 5 Comments

On April 1, 2024, campaigners rallied at Folkestone’s Sunny Sands beach to protest over sewage dumping in our sea along our coastline, in our district. Photo Ray Duff These [...]

A Vote for Rylands on May 4 is a vote for action, not gimmicks

April 11, 2023 // 2 Comments

I care about our environment, whether it is Princes Parade, Otterpool, our air, our rivers, or our seas. I care so much, I am taking Southern Water to tribunal to discover [...]

Sewage discharges fall due to drier weather, not Southern Water’s actions

March 31, 2023 // 6 Comments

The data released by the Environment Agency regarding the total duration (hours) of all spills by Southern Water, prior to processing into the sea and the East Stour river, [...]

Southern Water: No clue how much undiluted raw sewage they’ve pumped into our seas for 34 years

February 22, 2023 // 7 Comments

Exclusive They don’t have a clue. Not a single idea of how much undiluted raw sewage they pump into our rivers and seas. Is it plausible that the closing of St [...]

Education will help the cumulative impact of sewage pollution

October 22, 2022 // 1 Comment

Water laps at 26 miles of our wonderful districts coastline, and along the banks of the two main rivers which flow through the district, the East Stour and the Nailbourne. It [...]

Stodmarsh Update: “There is no prospect of the nutrients disappearing in the next 5-year period”

October 11, 2022 // 4 Comments

“For the foresseable future, it looks like nutrient neutrality is here to stay. There is no prospect of the nutrients disappearing in the next 5-year period” [...]

1,911 hours of untreated diluted sewage discharged into sea of Folkestone & Hythe District in 2021.

August 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

Hands up who thinks Southern Water are sh*t. That’s unanimous then. In the last ten years Southern Water have been awarded two ratings of good by the Environment [...]

Affinity, Southern & South East Water lose 4 Bewl Water reservoirs to leakage each year

July 31, 2022 // 2 Comments

Water is arguably the most important commodity on Earth. Humans don’t tend to last long without it. Water covers 70% of our planet, and it is easy to think that it will [...]

Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue Update: Up to 50,000 homes per annum affected by Nutrient Issue in East Kent

November 22, 2021 // 5 Comments

It depends on your point of view, it could be a good thing or a bad thing. The Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue rumbles on. According to Roland Cooper of Considine the issue is [...]

2,338 hours of untreated diluted sewage discharged into sea of Folkestone & Hythe District in 2020.

August 11, 2021 // 5 Comments

Southern Water owned offshore in the tax haven of Jersey, discharged untreated diluted sewage into the sea of the Folkestone & Hythe District coastline for two thousand [...]

Stodmarsh Update: Tens of thousands of East Kent construction jobs in jeopardy, along with 40,000 plus homes.

July 22, 2021 // 6 Comments

Resolving the water-quality issues within the Stodmarsh catchment area; which has placed a moratorium on granting planning consent across the whole of East Kent, is not only [...]

The Stodmarsh moratorium holding up 40,000 homes across East Kent

July 11, 2021 // 5 Comments

It will take “a very large financial number” to fix the Stodmarsh phosporus & nitrogen issue, say Natural England in a meeting held on Wednesday 2nd December, [...]

Affinity & Southern Water Lose Enough Water to Fill 100 Olympic Swimming Pools Each Day in 2019/20

July 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

In England, we take for granted a plentiful supply of water. Yet our high population density means the available water per person is actually less than in many Mediterranean [...]

Raw sewage flowed into our rivers in 2019 and Shepway Green Party remain silent.

July 2, 2020 // 2 Comments

Yesterday, The Shepway Green Party announced that Cllr Rebecca Tamsin Shoob (Green Party) (pictured) has accepted a place on the Ottepool Park LLP In 2019/20 Cllr Shoob [...]

Universal Credit Claims Pass 80,000 in Kent

April 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

The numbers of people claiming Universal Credit (UC) across all JobCentre Plus Offices in Kent (including Medway) between Feb 2019 and March 12th 2020 has risen by 37,329 [...]

Help & Assistance on Universal Credit

April 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

“Every little helps” so the Tesco’s adverstising logo says; and at a time when many across the Folkestone & Hythe District will have to claim Universal [...]

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