Thank you!

For all of your messages of support and donations that started rolling in as soon as the first episode of Dirty Business was aired. We have been overwhelmed by the response, so please bear with us while we sort out replies and thanks!

Media preview at the Channel 4 cinema. Prof Peter Hammond, Ash Smith and writer/director Joe Bullman

Many people are angry and upset but also energised and motivated. They want change, and that means an end to what Dirty Business shows so powerfully to be a broken system, built on extracting money and ignoring the sometimes terrible consequences, instead of being a water industry fit for the 21st century on the crowded island that we call home.

We will not waste this opportunity pursuing a chance to make a small improvement to what many already recognise as an awful prospect from propsed new laws. We are going for a proper fix that will put water company employees in a properly funded position to do the job well and to protect public health and the environment - delivering good value and good working conditions.

That means an end to privatisation and a transfer to public ownership but not inefficient companies run by the government, well managed modern companies owned by the public and funded by ring fenced billpayers money - as history and the accounts show, all the money we need.

We want and urgently need to shed the shareholders that brought nothing and took plenty and the creditors that have taken control; to end the unnecessary debt scam.

We want to take the parasites out of our water industry.

More on that coming soon and if you want to help but have no local group to join, a blog for you is on the way...