‘Where there’s a will there’s a way. It is the want of will and belief that keeps Sewage in our rivers instead of on the land. I call it National Suicide.’
Words that could have been penned in 2025 but actually written in 1877 with considerable prescience and wisdom by John Joseph Mechi, industrialist, London alderman, and champion of Victorian high farming. Why after nearly 150 years are we still getting it so wrong?
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