Surfers Against Sewage
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UK charity, creating #OceanActivists everywhere. 🌊 Campaigning for a thriving ocean, thriving people ✋ Join our community https://t.co/hNlfMBHSlo
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Don’t take us for fools, @Keir_Starmer. These reforms are just putting lipstick on a pig. Let water companies profit at our expense and you risk losing public trust and the confidence of your own MPs. https://t.co/UFAvHKTn0K Comment from @gilesbristow in @standardnews today
standard.co.uk
Ignore the Government spin. The recommendations of the Cunliffe Review are simply putting lipstick on a pig and fall pitifully short of the radical reform that’s needed to end the sewage scandal. So,...
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🚨🎥 The Thames Swim Against Sewage film is out now! Watch the full film: https://t.co/1W6Nwi9BxW
#ThamesSwimAgainstSewage #WildSwimming #EndSewagePollution #ProtectingWildWaters
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All that separates them from the beaches, where at Camber Sands hundreds of millions were spilled, is a single mesh screen. Once spilled they are impossible to remove & kill marine life https://t.co/yKjTfIEd14
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Experts urge water companies to update plants to avoid another catastrophe, as analysis reveals scale of use
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My research has found that almost all the billions of bio beads used in ageing sewage plants are on England’s south coast- after a catastrophic spill on Camber Sands. Link below
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💩 Water companies fail, fail, and fail again. It’s basically their business model. So why hasn’t the government thrown this entire sector into special administration yet? 🤔 #EndSewagePollution #SewageScandal #WaterCompanies #SickOfSewage
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The government thinks WCs need to throw a few pennies at a regulator fighting a system which syphons off millions to shareholders, while it continues to dump sewage in our seas and rivers. 💩 It's a hollow gesture that's doomed to fail. #SewageScandal
https://t.co/LNrB9ow964
express.co.uk
Ministers are under pressure to clean the nation's waterways amid threats from sewage, agricultural run-off and forever chemicals.
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🚨💷 Yet again, the public is paying the price for years of woeful mismanagement of water companies that pollute in the name of greed. For Water UK to claim that the water industry isn't 'awash with cash' is totally laughable. For years, millions of pounds have been funnelled to
bbc.co.uk
Five water companies win permission for higher bills as they seek more funds to fix outdated infrastructure.
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🚨 The water industry has been left to mark its own homework - AGAIN - and surprise, surprise... the entire system STINKS. 💩 Enough is enough. The Government’s Water Bill must deliver bold, transformational reform. ❌ https://t.co/q18X9c5BWN
#EndSewagePollution
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Data from inside England's environment watchdog show an agency struggling to monitor serious pollution.
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🌊 Politics and plunges! Our Head of Campaigns and Head of Communities have been at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference, speaking with MPs and councillors about how the Lib Dems can help drive ambition to rescue our rivers at both a national and local level. 📈💧 And yes… we
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🚨 Sewage alerts are LIVE in Scotland 🚨 For the first time ever, you can get real-time warnings when sewage pollutes Scottish waters via our Safer Seas & Rivers app. 🌊📲 Find out more: https://t.co/kieSJuNa5o
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Eight elite athletes from across the UK are setting out on a potentially record-breaking effort to complete a 208km non-stop relay swim along the River Thames. The challenge will conclude at Westminster on Thursday, where the swimmers will call on the government to take urgent
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I am part of #TheThamesSwimAgainst Sewage - a nonstop relay down the Thames. Taking the issue of sewage pollution right to Parliament at Westminster. 4 pairs of swimmers, we are about to start the 3 rotation (each) now. @sascampaigns
World-class swimmers are braving the Thames to deliver a message straight to Parliament. There are many challenges facing our nation, but none more basic than this: water is essential for life. Protect our rivers - the arteries of our country. 🌊 #ThamesSwimAgainstSewage
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World-class swimmers are braving the Thames to deliver a message straight to Parliament. There are many challenges facing our nation, but none more basic than this: water is essential for life. Protect our rivers - the arteries of our country. 🌊 #ThamesSwimAgainstSewage
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Best of luck to the @sascampaigns team swimming along the Thames this week - they want to send a message to MP’s that the sewage and pollution in our waters around the country is unacceptable 🏊🏊♀️
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Wow! 🤯🤑That reads less like enforcement and more like a classic regulatory sleight of hand. Tough talk on pollution, but plenty of wiggle room for Thames Water’s bosses and shareholders to carry on unbothered. https://t.co/afuBKCvz5B No wonder you're getting scrapped @Ofwat
theguardian.com
Ofwat gives the company breathing space as it scrambles to secure funding to avoid nationalisation
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😡 This is an outrage. Once again, petrostates and plastic giants put profit before planet, blocking progress and delaying action we desperately need NOW, not in another decade. Global leaders can't allow polluters to write the rules. The UK must keep fighting for a strong
theguardian.com
NGOs say deadlock over legally binding deal to curb production and toxic chemicals is ‘blow to multilateralism’
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🌊 Surfing, swimming, paddling - they connect us to the ocean we love and campaign to protect. But who’s riding the waves, and who’s being left out? Our new report uncovers the link between ocean sports, activism & inclusion. 📖 Read the findings: https://t.co/9zvBbUghPZ
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Today's @EnvAgency report is some welcome research, but we already know that our wild waters are alive with swimmers, surfers, sailors and paddlers all year round. And the rules meant to protect us are stuck in the past. With bathing water reforms due this year, the
theguardian.com
Government analysis finds 10 times more locations used for recreation than previously identified
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💩⬇️ Sinking to the depths of dishonour. We only have our broken water system, water companies' greed, and our complicit government to thank.🤑 We're here to ask the government: will they finally cut the cr💩p and give us something to be proud of? We're ready to bring the fight
theguardian.com
Experts warn country is in danger of becoming ‘dirty man of Europe’ as it falls to bottom of bathing water leaderboard
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🤮Over 6,000 dry spills in January and February- this is totally unacceptable. After lifting the lid on dry weather sewage dumping in 2022 you'd expect that three years on, changes would have been made. Think again. Water companies know the law, they break it anyway. Why?
thetimes.com
Raw sewage is pouring into waterways on dry days far more often than reported as infrastructure fails to keep pace with population growth and climate change
England’s water companies are causing more than 100 potentially illegal raw sewage spills a day into rivers and seas • 6,177 dry day spills by 9 firms in Jan & Feb • 6x times as many as previous BBC estimate • Anglian Water worst on 1,347 Story 👇 https://t.co/FOfwZWAXUv
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🌍 This week we’re on the ground in Geneva for the #GlobalPlasticsTreaty negotiations – bringing the voices of our communities right to the heart of the fight. After last year’s failed negotiations, we’re not letting polluters stall progress again. The world needs an ambitious
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