As South West Water defends a court action from a Devon swimmer, it also claims it has no legal duty to keep waters clean

South West Water is claiming it has no legal obligation to keep rivers and seawater clean of sewage in its defence against a Devon swimmer who is taking the water company to court.

Jo Bateman, who attempts to swim every day off the coast of Exmouth, is taking legal action against South West Water, claiming its frequent sewage discharges into the sea have taken away her legal right to a public “amenity”.

However, in its defence to Ms Bateman’s claim, seen by i, the water firm states no one has a legal right to swim in the sea.

          • Aniki 🌱🌿English
            103·
            7 months ago

            I’m going to assume all the comments are calls to violence and the mods and chicken shit cowards

            • Yawweee877h444
              73·
              7 months ago

              You are correct. Memes about guillotines and the like.

              Mods are cowards and bootlickers, must be from reddit lol.

            • jjjalljs
              23·
              7 months ago

              Yeah that seems to be the mod style here. Violence can be done to people in real life, but talking about how violence should be done back is unacceptable.

      • WaxedWookie
        71·
        7 months ago

        In cases like this, I favour the kind of poetic justice that only irony can deliver - leaving them strapped down to be waterboarded by one of their sewage outlets seems like a good option.