Raw sewage pumped into UK waterways for 4.7 million hours in 2024: ‘This will only get worse’
Some 27% of English billpayers have considered withholding their bill payments due to water supplier failings, a survey shows.
Raw sewage pumped into UK waterways for 4.7 million hours in 2024: ‘This will only get worse’
Some 27% of English billpayers have considered withholding their bill payments due to water supplier failings, a survey shows.
The number of pollution incidents recorded by water companies in England is at a ten-year high, according to data obtained by campaigners.
Surfers Against Sewage said the Environment Agency data showed the number of incidents was more than double its target.
Such spills have the potential to cause damage to wildlife and illness for people making use of the country’s rivers and seas.
Water UK, the industry body representing UK water and sewage companies, said companies plan to invest Β£12bn to reduce spills by the end of the decade.
Tide’s out. Polperro, Cornwall on a cold early February afternoon.
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Waiting for the tide.
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#devonBantham Beach
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At the start of the Tidal Road, Aveton Gifford.
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Seeing some sun on the dog walk yesterday made a nice change.
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Our last beach walk of the year was at Bigbury-on-Sea. It stayed dry despite the promise of rain in the clouds.
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The old kitchen has gone, and the new one is ready to be installed. Parker is wondering what’s happening to his bedroom.
This ITV podcast is a powerful indictment of how badly we treat people in social housing in the UK. The pod highlights a litany of failures by the British state.
Read more and view the episodes here: thetrapped.co.uk
This may help migrate your connections from π to Bluesky.
Come on Kier, wake up and get a move on!
Step up Brexit reset, or European allies will lose patience, Starmer warned. The call comes after Bank of Englandβs governor Andrew Bailey said the UK should rebuild relations with the European Union as he warned of the economic consequences of leaving the bloc.
This is an interesting article from Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace that ranks political partiesβ election manifestos ahead of polling day on 4 July. After scrutinising the details, Labour scores four times higher than the Conservatives, but the Greens and Liberal Democrats claim first and second place, respectively. friendsoftheearth.uk/system-ch…
Lightroom’s Generative Fill is impressive. This is a before and after photo of the tower on Glastonbury Tor.
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