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. www.bigissue.com/news/envi…

England water pollution at a 10-year high, campaigners say.

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 …

This is an interesting article from Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace that ranks political parties’ 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 …

Anyone interested in how Britain’s water companies are letting us down should read this article in The New Statesman. The piece by Will Dunn discusses how privatisation and the pursuit of profit lead to the devastation of England’s waterways.

This must stop. Thames Water has pumped at least 72bn litres of sewage into the River Thames since 2020 – roughly equal to 29,000 Olympic swimming pools – new figures reveal. Read the full article on the Guardian’s website.

Did you know that raw sewage is being dumped into English waterways the equivalent of 800 times a day? Water companies treat our blue spaces like an open sewer. Meanwhile government and regulators continue to turn a blind eye. This needs to stop. If you’re like me and agree that PM Rishi Sunak …

They’re sorry … while we swim in polluted water. Water companies apologise for sewage spills and pledge £10bn of investment, but critics say it’s too little England’s water and sewage companies have apologised for polluting rivers and beaches and pledged that more will be done to …

Is it time to renationalise our utilities?

If you live in the UK, you will have noticed the increased level of interest in the discharge of sewage into our rivers and seas. The government is concerned about the impact of this on the upcoming local elections and is talking tough but doing nothing. The situation with raw sewage also affects …

Despite it raining in Devon almost every day since we moved here in October last year, South West Water is imposing a hosepipe ban on us from 25th April. Since last summer, our region has been in drought. Low rainfall and high demand have stopped our reservoirs from recovering to levels we would …

Our government and the water companies' lack of effort and urgency about the declining state of our rivers and streams is frustrating. Our rivers are too precious for us to allow them to be polluted by human and farmyard sewage, pesticides and fertilisers. This is a photo I took of the River Avon …

Please support this campaign by the RSPB to ban the industrial fishing of sandeels in UK waters. Our threatened seabirds need your help. The UK Government could make the game-changing decision to ban industrial sandeel fishing in English waters. Please take action today to help make it happen. …

Please sign this petition to stop the body parts of lions killed in gruesome hunts from being bought and imported into the UK as hunting trophies. To hunt these beautiful animals for fun is inhumane and just wrong. Read more and sign the petition UPDATE 17/03/2023: Ban on imports of animal hunting …

Today, news outlets in the UK report that water companies have failed to monitor the amount of sewage discharged into the sea in popular resort towns. This is a disgrace, and I’ve supported a petition calling on the Government to renationalise the water supply as the industry, in its current form, …

My neighbour has been moving the earth to extend his wildlife pond #FridayPhoto 📷 iPhone 11, Halide app, processed in ON1 Photo RAW 2022

Mark Barrow has spent thirty years filming underwater clips that document the state of Britain’s rivers and streams. In the last twenty years, he has seen the percentage of UK waterways classified as healthy drop from over 90% to less than 15%. Now, as water companies are effectively granted …