#SewageDumping #UKBlueFlagBeaches

'England’s most celebrated beaches faced 8,500 hours of sewage dumping last year, new figures show.'

'Many beaches with blue flag status
were found to have been covered in waste over the last 12 months.'

'Among the worst-hit was Brighton beach in Sussex, where Southern Water discharged sewage 45 times last year.'

'Environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, will announce government plans to clean up Britain’s waterways on Tuesday.' 🤔

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/03/englands-top-beaches-faced-8500-hours-of-sewage-dumping-last-year-study-says?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco

Privatised water companies spilled raw sewage into English rivers 824 times a day last year. The companies claim they have to pour sewage into water courses due to extreme weather events such as heavy rainfall, but data from the Environment Agency shows there were just over 300,000 sewage spills in 2022, a record dry year.

#Water #PrivatisedWater #SewageDumping #UKPolitics #Rivers

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/31/raw-sewage-spilled-english-rivers-824-times-day-last-year

Why not cut dividends?
Ending sewage dumping will mean higher water bills - report
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65028971
#SewageDumping #OFWAT #Pollution

#Protestors with #ExtinctionRebellion #Midlands gathered outside #SevernTrentWater #HQ on Monday to make their point against the company’s #SewageDumping record.

Members took to the streets bringing props including a #SewagePipe & #PooEmojis 💩
2 #activists wore ‘corp rat’ #costumes, which they claim #symbolised a #link between #CorporateGreed & #environmental #destruction .

https://www.malvernobserver.co.uk/news/rebellion-protesters-air-severn-trents-dirty-water-outside-hq/

#UK #DirtyWater #WaterIsLife #StopPollution #environmental #StopEcocide #XR #DirectAction

Last night, 292 Conservative MPs voted to allow sewage dumping by water companies in our rivers and coasts for at least 15 more years.

Can you spot your MP on the list?

#Sewagedumping #watercompanies #Tories #UK #VoteToriesout

The disgraceful comeback from profiteering, poluting lobbying water companies. ‘It’s not our fault, you made us do it’…Water chiefs blame UK government for failure to stop sewage pollution https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/26/water-chiefs-blame-uk-government-for-failure-to-stop-sewage-pollution?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #pollutingwatercompanies #watercompanyshame #sewagedumping

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‘Southern Water has discharged raw sewage for more than 3,700 hours at 83 bathing water beaches during the first eight days of November alone’

#SOSWhitstable have been monitoring the discharges and described it as “the worst [they] have ever seen sewage pollution in the south-east”🚨

#UKPolitics #Environment #SewageDumping

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/08/southern-water-sewage-discharges-bathing-water-beaches?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other