UK’s Dirty Business: Extent of public anger at water companies and regulators revealed in Defra analysis.
The public responded to the Channel 4 docudrama series Dirty Business – which exposed the damage done by the sewage scandal – with “widespread praise”, whereas their discussions about water companies, the regulator and public bodies was “overwhelmingly negative”, according to the government’s own analysis.
The analysis was produced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in the aftermath of the series being aired and was released after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Canary.
