Brexit rivers of tulip

[NotAllThere]

EU mineral water no longer accredited from January 2022. Fill your glasses with tulip!
https://assets.publishing.service.go...ecognition.pdf
Nigel already started sampling it

Deport that man now. Green Kings IPA is the nectar of Gods. Even if the lowest order of demons drink it. Probably as a punishment from higher demons.

[hobnob]

It reads as if this was something already allowed when we were part of the EU, but that nobody wants to draw attention to that part?

I'm no expert on this (happy to be corrected!) but as I understand it there are 2 separate issues.

1. Some people claimed that the UK would be able to set higher standards than the EU, once we had our own separate legislation. However, when an amendment to the new bill said "How about not dumping untreated sewage into the rivers and the sea?" the government refused.

2. Previously, companies needed a permit to dump sewage, and that permit required them to treat it first. However, some of the chemicals are now harder to come by, so the Environment Agency have said that companies don't have to follow that restriction anymore.
Government says polluters can dump risky sewage into rivers as Brexit disrupts water treatment | The Independent

So, I believe that the amount of pollution has got worse after Brexit. Whether that's a significant problem will depend on your point of view (e.g. whether you want to go swimming in that water).

[WTFH]

No need to worry, the government have done a U-bend on the legislation:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environm...e-water-bills/

[vetran]

No need to worry, the government have done a U-bend on the legislation:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environm...e-water-bills/

Good stuff a government that does the right thing.

[xoggoth]

Not an easy problem to fix. It will take umpteen billions to upgrade our systems, so what do we do until that happens?

PS They should be telling us that drinking a bit of pooey water each day is good for you.

[Eirikur]

[vetran]

Well it seems the Netherlands still send their tulip here

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...human-waste-uk

Sewage sludge containing human waste from the Netherlands has been passed for import to the UK, to be used on farmland as fertiliser, despite concerns over the safety of its use.

Spreading the sludge on farmland is banned in the Netherlands, where incineration is preferred, but allowed in the UK. Dutch water authorities are eyeing the UK as a possible destination for their sewage, after problems at an Amsterdam incineration company left them lacking disposal options.

[WTFH]

Well it seems the Netherlands still send their tulip here

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...human-waste-uk

Tulip from Amsterdam?

Anyway, it's good to see that we've got a great turd trade deal there, and they need us more than we need them. Everything is flowing normally through to the UK, no constipation in the process.

[BR14]

Well it seems the Netherlands still send their tulip here

since 2013 according to the OP's join date

[Eirikur]

Well it seems the Netherlands still send their tulip here

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...human-waste-uk

So you're agreeing the Brits are stupid for accepting it?