England’s sewage crisis: how polluted is your local river?

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

Rivers in north of England among the most polluted. New data.

Search your postcode to see how sewage spills into your local river.

Guardian article. Click link, insert postcode, don't go all tin foil hat paranoid about sharing your details!!

Enter your postcode, and they'll show rivers that lie within a 3-mile radius of where you live. Then select a river for more information.

 

[Confused_Fred]

That was an interesting little read..... I think


What the article missed out was the human effect. People and and their pleasure boats that use those rivers dump there sewage straight into it. They shouldn't it's....against the law.... but they all do it.

Even people who use sailing dinghy's do it. Small boats like kayaks and sailing dinghy's don't come with toilets.

I'm going to tell you the truth about pollution on our beaches and our rivers during the warmer months. People rushed to the beach in their thousands. Now who hasn't had a wee a in the sea?

It's even worse at night in towns like Brighton with few public toilets. After dark, clubbers all hit the beach for a wee and a crap. It's the reason you find turds floating in the sea. Nothing to do with the water companies..... it's people who cant find a public toilet open at 4am.

Think about all those people who walk their dogs and fish along many canals and river banks. Do you think they wait until they get home if they need a wee? No again.

Water companies may dump raw sewage over the winter if there's a storm. Our old sewage system cannot take a number of people living in the UK right now but to blame them for all the sewage contamination is ridiculous.

 

[Moriarty]

I have a black kettle, every 2 days I have to clean the limescale off it because our water sux so bad.
Got filters for my water and they clog up after a week.

It's pathetic.