Social Injustice 👷 (work in progress)

• The theme of XR's Action timeline in April and August is Social Justice. How does this apply to Dirty Water? The Climate Crisis, Water Crisis and Cost-of-Living Crisis affects everyone, but not equally.

• Our lives depend on water and so does the world around us. Water is so fundamental to our daily lives that it’s considered a basic human right, with the provision of safe, sufficient and affordable water directly linked to the health, dignity and prosperity of communities across the world. The water pollution crisis fuels injustice, where poorer communities, especially in the Global South, are tasked with the polluting production of consumer goods destined for richer communities like the UK. And while the scourge of sewage pollution is spread evenly across the UK, one in 16 households here live in water poverty, where the cost of water makes up more than 5% of their income. We all rely on water, but not all of us can afford to pay for it. In England the failure of privatised water allowed so-called investors to hollow out public service companies (aka 'gearing') to return profits for themselves, while leaving the water infrastructure they inherited to rot.