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Water companies in England ‘use greenwashing playbook to hide environmental harm’ (www.theguardian.com)

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Water companies are adopting disinformation tactics similar to those used by the fossil fuel and tobacco industries with the widespread use of greenwashing to downplay the environmental harm they cause, a study says.

Environmental scientists analysed the communications of the nine main water and sewerage companies in England, and compared them with a framework of 28 greenwashing tactics employed, researchers say, by the tobacco, alcohol, fossil fuels and chemical industries.

The water companies have adopted 22 of these tactics to downplay environmental harm, misrepresent information, undermine scientific research, shift blame and delay action, the researchers say.

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[–] solarpunkandrobots@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

            
              Complete putting Thames Water into administration
Place Thames Water under government control, set public benefit goals
Wait for improvements in the data
Pass law that any water company failing to exceed Thames Water performance will be merged with it
Wait for the firms to strangle themselves with the rope you gave them