Greens call for water companies to be taken into public hands as Environment secretary visits polluted Windemere 10 March 2025 / 10 March 2025 by Green Party Green Party Co-Leader Adrian Ramsay MP has poured cold water on today’s visit by Environment Secretary Steve Reed to Lake Windemere and the announcement that United Utilities will invest £200m into upgrading 10 wastewater treatment works at Windermere [1]. He said: “The government is today trumpeting its “Things Can Only Get Cleaner” tour. But the […] Read more » Adrian Ramsay Green Party pollution Public ownership Sewage Water companies