Should the taxpayer or the water companies pay to improve our rotten flood defen!

Should the taxpayer or the water companies pay to improve our rotten flood defence systems?

Lady Young, Head of the Environment Agency, said today that water bills would have to rise across the UK to improve our flood defences.
The water companies increase their profits every year and yet allow almost as much water to soak away through broken pipes as they manage to store.
The Environment Agency kept the flood defences for Upton 20 miles away - then could not get them to the town before it was inundated because the roads were impassably flooded.
The recent floods in Yorkshire, the Midlands and - horror of horrors, a trickle of water in the sacred Home Counties - have shown up the total uselessness of the Environment Agency, but its Head honcho wants you and me to pay to keep her in a job and her fat cat cronies rolling in profits.
Please open you own floodgates of comment, because this apparatchik is trying to make us pay for her Agency's incompetence.

Ohhhhh I totally agree with you. The dividend payouts by water companies over years and their failure to maintain their stystems should come back to their door.

Love your comment about the Home Counties too - it seems that they only take note when it hits them! It's been truly dreadful near me - I'm not sure how some of these poor people will ever get their lives back to something that resembles normal.

Hit the water companies where it hurts.