Our word, isn’t this just terrible?
Genes capable of creating antibiotic-resistant superbugs have been detected in the UK’s largest lake, which supplies drinking water to about 40% of Northern Ireland.
Testing of water from Lough Neagh, which has a surface area 26 times bigger than Windermere, found genes resistant to a wide range of antibiotics, including carbapenems – drugs reserved for life-threatening infections when all other treatments have failed.
Fortunately we do know what to do here, there’s a ready solution.
We must privatise this state owned water system and thereby enable the influx of capital and investment that will improve environmental water standards - just as we did and as worked so successfully in England those decades back.
Simples. eh?
Tim Worstall