Outrage over the state of the country’s waterways and the perceived impunity water companies is piling pressure on the government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
last year showed that sewage had spilled into the river at multiple points near Woodbridge, and that one sewage storm overflow — relief valves when a system is at risk of being overwhelmed — spilled into the river 33 times over the course of 2022. At another, less than a mile downstream, sewage spilled into the river for 19 hours in the same period.
, according to Tessa Wardley, a spokesperson for The Rivers Trust, a charity and umbrella organization for 60 organizations throughout the country.government, water companies were given permission to self-report and monitor their own sewage discharges.
Compounding the problem caused by aging systems is the light-touch regulation of the companies in charge of water treatment, which allows companies to “self-report” discharge, said Jamie Woodward, a professor in Earth history and river science at the University of Manchester. This has been “catastrophic for the environment,” but so has cutting funds to the Environment Agency, he added.Different parts of the river Deben have been tested for E.
“Sewage entering our rivers is clearly unacceptable,” Coffey said in a statement the following week. “The public is rightly disgusted by the water companies’ excessive use of overflows, which is a blight on our beautiful rivers and coastlines.
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