Russell and Carol - hayle and hearty

Oh well - that's OK... NOT!!!!

The UKHSA said PFAS
biomonitoring was not currently recommended through the NHS or private
blood tests, but it was "developing capabilities" as an agency to
examine human exposure to PFAS by analysing blood and urine samples.

It
said that "most people in the UK are likely to have measurable levels
of PFAS in the blood" as it is "widespread", with exposure coming from
food, drinking water, air and everyday products.

...

Residents previously asked the council to test their blood for the
chemical. But according to the UK Health Security Agency, PFAS
monitoring is not currently recommended because "tests are unlikely to
provide clear information for individuals".

...while the ills of our privatised water industry have many authors – from
Margaret Thatcher, who put it into private hands in 1989, to the
rapacious venture capitalists, who have stripped its assets and loaded
it with debt, to the company chiefs, who have been responsible for the despoilation of our rivers,
and to successive governments, who have been complicit in weakening
regulation – Sir James Bevan, one-time head of the Environment Agency,
is, in many eyes, seen as emblematic of the failures in oversight of
privatised water companies, the personification of a system that has
failed us all.

But it’s best to begin this shocking tale here.

There are 195 countries
in the world. Some are big, some small. Some are highly developed,
others not so much. Some are rich. Some poor.

Now for the extraordinary
fact.

Guess how many of those countries have put its water industry
fully into private hands.