Failing sewage infrastructure nationwide has been described as  “a ticking time bomb that’s ready to go off.”  The truth is, the fuse has almost burnt out.

Why Decentralise Sewage Treatment? One of the major benefits of a decentralised sewage system like the BIOROCK® is that there is no large, sprawling, vastly expensive infrastructure to repair.  All across the country, aging, undersized, centralised municipal sewage works and sewage pipelines are failing at an alarming rate.   Take a look at the Environment Agency     website which states :- 'Pollutants In 2007, sewage was the most common pollutant, found at 15 per cent of serious incidents.  This is not surprising given that the sewage and water industry caused the most incidents. Also common were waste materials, namely asbestos, household rubbish and vehicle parts.'   In 2007, the sewage and water industry caused 19% of serious (category 1 and 2) water pollution incidents.  Farming, which is often slated by the press for water pollution, occupies over 80% of the UK landmass and is subject to strict controls, caused only 12%.  We trust the Water Companies to safeguard our rivers - it is their responsibility, paid for by us through our sewage rates - and they are failing us all. The Water Companies are fined on a regular basis (but not enough) because the infrastructure is not coping.   Now Britain faces having to £MILLIONS in fines to the European Union plus spend £BILLIONS to avoid future fines!   Take a look at these appalling records: BRITAIN's DIRTY BEACHES - Another chance to view this entire BBC PANORAMA programme   http://www.web4water.com/news/news_story.asp?id=17119 http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/news/106668.aspx  http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/4514096.Rowers_up_in_oars_at_sewage_dump/ http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/109398.aspx?page=1&month=7&year=2009 http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/86498.aspx?page=4&month=8&year=2008 http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=16673&channel=4&title=Irish+waste+water+treatment+plants+failing+to+meet+EU+standards%2C+report+finds http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/110026.aspx http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/england/hampshire/7594422.stm http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Water-firm-fined-sewage-leak/article-255311-detail/article.html And these are just some of them.   To list them all would require an entire website. It would take thousands of single house sewage system failures - at the same time - to produce this amount of pollution. It is time that we all started to re-evaluate the sense - or lack of it - in centralising all sewage treatment - Just imagine if the only effluent leaving every property was clean water?  Anglian Water Pollution of the Great Ouse

One of the big problems is that towns and villages have grown massively in the last 20 years, with housing estates and smaller developments mushrooming on both brownfield and greenfield sites.  This increase in sewage production, is rarely matched by a corresponding upgrade of the municipal sewage works, resulting in overloading and pollution problems.  Wet weather makes it dramatically worse as raw sewage is discharged into storm drains - which discharge into rivers - as a coping mechanism.  The Water Companies do not have the resources to upgrade surface and sewage drains and works every time a new planning permission is granted and the Planning Departments hardly ever enforce it as a requirement.