Sewage in UK Law
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Credit rated: Sophia Steiger has progressed from working at London's largest sewage plant to managing assets worth billions for a global bank. She traces her journey from serious muck to serious money.
...What's your role at Credit Suisse? I'm responsible for managing a multi-billion-dollar global cost base. This includes the costs relating to the IT programmes that deliver the innovative solutions for the future; the IT applications that are relied......
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Book Review: The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian England
......Importantly, Rosenthal observes in Chapter 4 that no available treatment could be relied upon to treat the sewage effectively enough to avoid gross pollution of the rivers and also the environs through which the rivers passed. This becomes manifestly clear in the ......
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The Common Law Clean Up of the ‘Workshop of the World’: More Realism About Nuisance Law's Historic Environmental Achievements
This article examines the environmental benefits arising from compliance with common law nuisance injunctions during the British industrial revolution. It argues, based on the outcomes of industria.........Journal of Law and Society ß 2013 Cardiff University Law School . Birmingham Corporation sewage pollution case, 7 the court laid down a strict entitlement to purity of watercourses which is understood to have sub- sequently proved popular with ......
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Cumberland County Police Houses
......Being in rural districts the majority of the houses have to be drained to a small sewage-disposal plant, with precipitation tank and treatment bed, the effluent being taken in field drains to the nearest suitable ......
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India : Pollution Control Policy and Programmes
...... is served with the community water-supply system, the quality of water is woefully inadequate because of the manner in which sewage is disposed. 2. Sewage Disposal - Human Waste Although animal waste is generally used for cooking, heating, and agricultural ......
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State and regime capacity in authoritarian elections: Egypt before the Arab spring
Scholarship on electoral authoritarianism has increasingly recognized state capacity as an element enhancing electoral control. Building on such arguments, I examine the interaction between state c......... capacity in a given electoral constituency is operationalized by meas- uring the proportion of households with access to the public sewage system. Access to the sewage system is not a direct measure of state capacity, but rather a measure of service provision. Nevertheless, if we ......
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Book Review: Environmental Protection and Human Rights
......Importantly, Rosenthal observes in Chapter 4 that no available treatment could be relied upon to treat the sewage effectively enough to avoid gross pollution of the rivers and also the environs through which the rivers passed. This becomes manifestly clear in the ......
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PRIVATISATION AND EFFICIENCY IN THE UK WATER INDUSTRY: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS*
ABSTRACTS The post‐privatisation structure of the UK water industry involves the separation of environmental services from other outputs previously produced under an integrated system by the public.........The RWAs became responsible for water supply, sewerage, sewage disposal, water resource planning, pollution, fisheries, flood protection and land drainage, water recreation and environmental conservation. ......
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Nuisance Law and the Industrial Revolution: A Reinterpretation of Doctrine and Institutional Competence
Contrary to the leading studies of Brenner and McLaren, it is argued that nuisance law was consistently a robust constraint on polluting industrial enterprise during the industrial revolution. The ......... It was not until the second half of the century that an engineered sewage infrastructure was pioneered, with devastating ecological consequences.The replacement of scavengers by a network of sew ers conveying 19 E. ......
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Arrangements for Water Pollution Control in Scotland
......jects, such as housing or industrial. In these nume- . implementing improvement programmes . rous grants, sewage treatment may be a small part . within the Scottish water pollution control ar- . ......
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