
Surfers Against Sewage
@sascampaigns
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UK charity, creating #OceanActivists everywhere. ๐ Campaigning for a thriving ocean, thriving people โ Join our community https://t.co/hNlfMBHSlo
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Donโt 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 thatโs needed to end the sewage scandal. So,...
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๐จ๐ท 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
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๐จ The water industry has been left to mark its own homework - AGAIN - and surprise, surprise... the entire system STINKS. ๐ฉ Enough is enough. The Governmentโs Water Bill must deliver bold, transformational reform. โ https://t.co/q18X9c5BWN
#EndSewagePollution
bbc.co.uk
Data from inside England's environment watchdog show an agency struggling to monitor serious pollution.
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๐ 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. ๐๐ง And yesโฆ we
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Every time the Lions go for it on 4th down tonight, we're giving 1 person who likes a $1K CHALLENGE ACCOUNT! ๐ค Must be following! (i.e. Lions go for it 6 times, 6 winners)
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๐จ Sewage alerts are LIVE in Scotland ๐จ For the first time ever, you can get real-time warnings when sewage pollutes Scottish waters via our Safer Seas & Rivers app. ๐๐ฒ 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. ๐ #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. ๐ #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 MPโs that the sewage and pollution in our waters around the country is unacceptable ๐๐โโ๏ธ
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Wow! ๐คฏ๐คThat reads less like enforcement and more like a classic regulatory sleight of hand. Tough talk on pollution, but plenty of wiggle room for Thames Waterโs 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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๐ก 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
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๐ Surfing, swimming, paddling - they connect us to the ocean we love and campaign to protect. But whoโs riding the waves, and whoโs being left out? Our new report uncovers the link between ocean sports, activism & inclusion. ๐ 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
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๐ฉโฌ๏ธ Sinking to the depths of dishonour. We only have our broken water system, water companies' greed, and our complicit government to thank.๐ค We're here to ask the government: will they finally cut the cr๐ฉp and give us something to be proud of? We're ready to bring the fight
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๐คฎOver 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?
Englandโs water companies are causing more than 100 potentially illegal raw sewage spills a day into rivers and seas โข 6,177 dry day spills by 9 firms in Jan & Feb โข 6x times as many as previous BBC estimate โข Anglian Water worst on 1,347 Story ๐ https://t.co/FOfwZWAXUv
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๐ This week weโre on the ground in Geneva for the #GlobalPlasticsTreaty negotiations โ bringing the voices of our communities right to the heart of the fight. After last yearโs failed negotiations, weโre not letting polluters stall progress again. The world needs an ambitious
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Olympian @hector_pardoe is in the midst of a world-first challenge โ swimming the full lengths of Loch Lomond, Windermere & Llyn Tegid, all for the fight for clean water. ๐๐๐ ๐ฒ Follow LIVE on our IG & FB Stories. ๐ธ Donate: https://t.co/k8wWS79oEm
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THREE LAKES SWIM- HALFWAY MARK โ
Hector Pardoe has hit the halfway point of his mammoth challenge. The Olympian is swimming across Loch Lomond, Lake Windermere and Llyn Tegid in 24 hours, and he is SMASHING it! If it wasn't epic enough that he's taking on a world record
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7hr 56mins. Non stop through the night. The fastest anyone has ever swim Loch Lomond ๐คฏ๐คฏ๐คฏ incredible from @hector_pardoe . And still two lakes left!!! On to Windermere ๐ช๐ช๐ช Donate now! https://t.co/k8wWS79oEm
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Hector says: "Inspired by the traditional Three Peaks Mountain challenge, I wanted to create something just as iconic โ but in the water. This isnโt just about pushing my own limits. Itโs about using the platform Iโve built through sport to fight for the environment that made me.
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Olympian @hector_pardoe is in the midst of a world-first challenge โ swimming the full lengths of Loch Lomond, Windermere & Llyn Tegid, all for the fight for clean water. ๐๐๐ ๐ฒ Follow LIVE on our IG & FB Stories. ๐ธ Donate: https://t.co/k8wWS79oEm
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