ALASTAIR CAMPBELL River Wharfe 10,798 hours worth of sewage dumped on 1,687 occasions in 2022.

Only 1 designated bathing spot, in Ilkley, 1 of just 2 stretches of river in England designated. Currently has 'do not swim' advisory due to elevated E. coli level. 😡

top-of-the-poops.org/waterway/yorks…

Great looking ad complete with wild water swimmers for Lloyds Banking Group Shame that United Utilities polluted the River Eden with sewage 1,692 times in 2022 - lasting 11,780 hours. top-poop

In a letter to the The Times and The Sunday Times Jonathan Jones of Westbury explains how he took out a small claims court action against a water company for loss of amenity due to sewage pollution. They agreed to settle for the sum of £550.

Now that is interesting!

I think these publicly funded talks should be available to view free online Defra UK #OpenAccess

Odd that United Utilities were fined less than the money they made.

22bn litres = 22m m3 × £3.053 (price per m3) = £67m.

Fine only £800k

It's worth breaking the law!

Helena Horton

theguardian.com/business/2023/…

The game is up for the privateers as the public realise the con trick of privatisation fails us all. Overwhelming support for renationalisation of energy, rail & water says YouGov poll / FT

#PublicOwnership

HUGE sewage discharge into the River Brent in Ealing. Over 15 hours and still dumping! The Brent feeds into the Thames. This is one of the longest discharges I have seen in London from Thames Water.
Absolutely disgusting.

Something we've been calling for for years - data on sewage discharge volume.

Water companies have hidden their murky practices behind murky data for far too long.

It's time for transparency. It's time for clean rivers and seas #EndSewagePollution
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The government has said that the sewage plan does not deal with the illegal discharges of sewage to English and Welsh rivers and that costs of meeting the 1994 law on sewage overflows should not be paid for by customers. wildfish.org/latest-news/go…

Thanks to BBC Radio 5 Live for featuring us today - talking about #sewage pollution in Sunderland.

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… - at 1:41:50

Find out more at top-of-the-poops.org

Thanks to BBC Radio 5 Live for featuring us today - talking about #sewage pollution in Sunderland.

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… - at 1:41:50

Find out more at top-of-the-poops.org

Very excited to announce that we have the first version of our *live* river sewage pollution maps.

E.g. top-of-the-poops.org/constituency/b…

In concert with Dr Lipp, of Merton College, Oxford, we show how sewage from currently overflowing CSOs flows downriver.

Bookmark your constituency!

🚨 It's time to expose the polluters 🚨

These brands are responsible for 70%+ of branded pollution found on cleans of our blue and green spaces 😡

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...and read the full Brand Audit report here buff.ly/3DnBodF

#DirtyDozen #EndPlasticPollution

Why even bother with the facade of the wastewater treatment works? Sewage and inadequately treated wastewater was dumped in the River Irwell 2,385 times in 2022 for a total of 12,939 hours. Wonder why the WCs won’t tell us how much sewage they dump? 🤔 top-of-the-poops.org/waterway/unite…

This CSO dumped sewage into the River Irwell near Waterfoot on 132 occasions for a total of 1061 hours in 2022 top-of-the-poops.org/waterway/unite… The River Irwell ranks 5th worst in England for sewage dumping top-poop 💩

NEW: Dŵr Cymru’s status has been *downgraded* for a second year running due to sewage.

It’s now rated 2* by Natural Resources Wales which means it “requires improvement”.

The number of sewage pollution incidents have continued to grow over the last few years.

Last week, our CEO James Wallace joined Steve Backshall, Henley Mermaids and Dave Wallace (with kit from Earthwatch Europe) to test for phosphates and nitrates at an outflow on the Thames.

The results were shocking, with nitrates nearly 10 TIMES(‼️) over the acceptable level🤢🤢🧵

Are London's taps about to run dry? My investigation into the Thames Water situation for Evening Standard - thanks to Feargal Sharkey London Waterkeeper

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The impact of community based citizen science. Incredible coverage of the testing we have done on the Thames in Henley. Thank you so much RiverActionUK Windrush WASP Earthwatch Tim_Harris for all the support. And the mighty Feargal Sharkey and James Wallace for inspiring me…