Raw sewage released into UK waterways increases by 2,553% over five years
Rivers of Sh*t: the amount of harmful crap being pumped into our rivers and seas has multiplied by 2,553 per cent.
A friend on the social media asked how private water companies could have pumped raw sewage into our seas and rivers for more than nine million hours since 2016 when that’s the equivalent of 1,076 years.
The answer, in fact, is quite simple: each company has many outflows into the UK’s waterways, and they have been pumping away industrially.
The amount of raw sewage going into our rivers and seas has increased by 2,553 per cent over the last five years.
No wonder the information had to be dragged out of the Environment Agency by the Labour Party, via the Freedom of Information Act!
I’m reminded of the advertising campaign for the movie Jaws 2, containing what may be horror’s greatest tagline:
“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.”
Sadly, nobody has thought it was safe to go in the water since the government voted to allow the water companies to pump all their crap – literally – into UK waterways.
Who knew the threat wouldn’t come from a dangerous creature but from an industry that’s supposed to keep us safe?
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One excuse being given by Southern Sewage for their huge pollution along most of the south coast (all beaches closed) is the extreme amount of rain. Well here in East Sussex where one of the worst cases occurred we certainly did NOT have exceptional rain. We had just two days in August with a few hours of moderately heavy rain. There was absolutely no flooding, just a few very average intervals of rain