17/06/10
Despite the old saying, success usually does have many parents...
An Observer columnist highlights the star performance of a campaign group, but Water UK points out one or two supporting parts.
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From the Chief Executive of Water UK
FOR PUBLICATION
Dear Editor
In her eulogy on how Surfers Against Sewage saved our beaches, Lucy Seigle (The muck stops here, Magazine, 13 June) fails to mention the EU bathing water directive that required the clean-up, or the water companies who did the work.
Is it any surprise that the EU is mistrusted in this country, or the water industry misunderstood, when their parts in a big environmental success story are attributed to a single issue group (however effective)?
Yours sincerely
Pamela Taylor
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