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BRITAIN-ECONOMY/INFRASTRUCTURE
Maintenance technician Dave Gooding adjusts a pulley in the Thames Water Fleet sewer, a Victorian sewer system designed by Joseph Bazalgette, beneath the streets of London March 13, 2013. After heavy rainfall, raw sewage gushes into the River Thames from a network of dank sewers beneath the streets of London. A Victorian-era problem that has never been fixed, the cobweb-laced tunnels just metres from a new railway station at Blackfriars underscore Britain's infrastructure backlog. The need for a new "super sewer" for Europe's financial capital was identified as far back as 1989 but privatised utility Thames Water, lacked government funding and had more pressing priorities such as cleaner drinking water. Photograph taken March 13, 2013. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION SOCIETY) - RTR3F5OZ
BRITAIN-ECONOMY/INFRASTRUCTURE
Maintenance technician Dave Gooding adjusts a pulley in the Thames Water Fleet sewer, a Victorian sewer system designed by Joseph Bazalgette, beneath the streets of London March 13, 2013. After heavy rainfall, raw sewage gushes into the River Thames from a network of dank sewers beneath the streets of London. A Victorian-era problem that has never been fixed, the cobweb-laced tunnels just metres from a new railway station at Blackfriars underscore Britain's infrastructure backlog. The need for a new "super sewer" for Europe's financial capital was identified as far back as 1989 but privatised utility Thames Water, lacked government funding and had more pressing priorities such as cleaner drinking water. Photograph taken March 13, 2013. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION SOCIETY) - RTR3F5OZ