"The three-part docudrama Dirty Business, which started on Channel 4 on Monday and concluded midweek, has made the notion of going into the sea in the UK terrifying and unlike Jaws, this story is real. It is an example of what good drama can do that even the best reporting can't quite achieve."
"David Thewlis and Jason Watkins, both brilliant as the real-life amateur detectives on the trail of industrial-scale polluting, drive home in a visceral way a complicated, shattering story. Namely: the absolute scandal of this country's privatised water companies dumping untreated effluent into its rivers and sea, and the utter disgrace of the Environment Agency in failing to prosecute them."
"The first episode is organised around the death from E coli of an eight-year-old girl after a trip to the beach in Devon (the cause was not identified and a verdict of misadventure was ruled by a jury), where her family saw untreated sewage pumping out of a waste pipe."
A three-part Channel 4 docudrama exposes the widespread pollution of UK waters by privatised water companies dumping untreated effluent. The series follows amateur detectives investigating industrial-scale contamination and highlights the Environment Agency's failure to enforce regulations. An eight-year-old girl died from E coli after swimming at a Devon beach where untreated sewage was visibly pumping into the sea. The drama effectively communicates the severity of this public health crisis in ways traditional reporting cannot, prompting viewers to check sewage-monitoring apps and discover pollution alerts at their local beaches. The scandal represents a fundamental failure of environmental protection in Britain.
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