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Warning UK rivers are ‘toxic chemical soup’ as all now plagued by sewage (www.independent.co.uk)

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All of the UK’s rivers are now polluted with sewage, with campaigners warning of a “toxic chemical soup” in our waters.

Leading campaign group Surfers Against Sewage is calling on the government and water companies to tackle the issue, as new data showed only 40 per cent of rivers are deemed to be in good ecological health.

According to the website Top of the Poops, which collects information on sewage dumps, found there were at least 513,234 spills into rivers in 2024, lasting more than 4 million hours.

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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago

According to ths gov report, we've seen a massive reduction in toxic metals and other unwanted chemicals since the 80s, with the sole exception of Nitrates which peaked in 1998 and have been in the downhill since.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-of-the-water-environment-indicator-b3-supporting-evidence/state-of-the-water-environment-long-term-trends-in-river-quality-in-england-2024#what-the-graphs-show

This does not jell very well with what I've been hearing about water companies dumping into the river, so I wonder if the gov is protecting itself with a false report, or that the report is true but the recent dumping is not significant but alarming as a general trend that might balloon into something serious?