In exquisite timing, local river guardians discovered two significant... sewage discharges on the Roding today. The quantity & volume was so big that they were visibly polluting the river (& likely poisoning aquatic life) for hundreds of metres downstream. Even worse, this stretch of the River at Wanstead Park is one of the most popular natural swimming & paddling spots in East London that will be very busy during the heatwave this week. This deluge of sewage is putting people’s lives (particularly paddling children) at risk. Perhaps Thames Water 💧 could use some of the million pound bonus they gave out to stop the sewage & warn local people instead?show more

Illegal sewage outfalls are a major issue on the... River Roding, as they are around much of the country. The EA has not brought any prosecutions for illegal sewage discharges on the Roding this century. In 2022, I discovered an illegal sewage outfall on the Aldersbrook discharging raw shit into the river. I reported it to the EA, who did absolutely nothing. I then had to campaign in my spare time for 3 years to get the outfall fixed, attending meetings with the council & Thames Water & dealing with journalists. Eventually, the campaign worked & Thames Water spent £1 million fixing the outfall. Subsequently, I realised that the EA had no idea where all the illegal sewage outfalls on the river were, or which were most harmful. I therefore went out on the river myself with a bucket, in a pair of waders to find & analyse all the illegal outfalls on the river. I found dozens of them, spilling over a billion litres of raw sewage illegally into the river every year. I have given the exact locations of all the illegal outfalls to the EA & they’ve done sweet FA. Raw sewage continues to pour into the river illegally & unchecked every minute of every day of the year, & parts of the river are now ecologically dead, as well as having e-coli levels more than 250 times the safe limit.show more

There is of course another side of Thames Water... 💧's relationship with the Hogsmill River, one of only two urban chalk streams in London. Yep that is Epsom storm tanks dumping sewage into the river, a chalk stream. How's that workout with the water voles do you think?show more

Count Binface’s policy of making water company bosses swim... in polluted rivers might sound ridiculous, but is actually far more effective as a response to the sewage crisis than anything Reform is proposing. There are lots of places I could take the bosses of Thames Water 💧 to on the River Roding, as we have dozens of completely illegal sewage spills to choose from. I think the ideal spot would have to be the Cran Brook though. It’s convenient to get to: just 15 minutes walk from an Elizabeth Line Station & Ilford town centre where hundreds of thousands of people live & work. But that doesn’t stop Thames Water constantly dumping 750,000,000 litres of raw sewage into the Roding via this brook every single year, whilst refusing to commit to our fair demand to stop all spills by 2030. I guess they might say it’s unsafe to swim in a cocktail of raw shit, cooking fat, toilet tissue & chemicals? But if this water is too unsafe & disgusting for them to touch, surely it’s not safe to discharge into our river? In trying to be silly, has Binface actually hit upon an eminently sensible policy that most people in Britain would support?show more

The Environment Agency crisis comms swings into action ahead... of the first episode of ‘Dirty Business’ tonight with the usual mix of gaslighting, cover up and half truths. They say they “act on breaches of environmental law”, but on my river, the Roding, there are dozens of illegal outfalls, spewing over a billion litres of raw sewage into the river every year and the Environment Agency has not brought a single prosecution this century. Not one! The evidence is not hard to find- many of these outfalls have been reported by the public for decades and run through parks & major population centres. There seems to be actual policy in place to just ignore rampant criminality, although we cannot say if this policy springs from inertia, incompetence, corruption or a mixture of all three. So that the EA cannot say I’m making this up, I’m going to post pictures, locations and data measurements from illegal outfalls on the Roding. First up is the Cran Brook. Running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at least 25 litres a second and ammonia concentrations of 5-7 PPM, this river is arguably the most polluted river in London, spewing 750 million litres of sewage & landfill leachate directly into the Roding, here:show more

Sewage discharging in #LakeDistrict river. United Utilities doing what... they do best. Video taken at 10am this morning on the river Brathay. The Environment Agency is permitting up to 1.1 million litres a day of sewage to come out of this pipe. This is making its way into Englands largest lake in a UNESCO world heritage site and National Park. Save Windermere has made a new short film about this pipe ⬇️ Help the campaign by signing up to our website ⬇️ Feargal Sharkey Prof Jamie Woodward Windrush WASPshow more

#Pune: Private Builder Caught Dumping Untreated Sewage into #RamRiver... Since 2021, Environmentalists Demand Immediate Action ..... . . In a shocking revelation, it has been discovered that a private builder, a prominent real estate developer in Pune, has been clandestinely dumping untreated sewage into the Ram River since 2021. The magnitude of this environmental transgression has reached alarming proportions, with over 10 million litres of sewage having been recklessly discharged into the river. The modus operandi involves Rohan Madhuban, a high-end society in Bavdhan Khurd with over 330 flats and nearly 1000 residents. Despite the absence of a functional Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) within the society premises for several years, the builder has persistently managed the sewage treatment process. However, driven by cost-cutting motives, the builder opted to collect the wastewater in tankers, bypassing any treatment, and directly releasing it into the Ram River and other public areas in Bavdhan. The distressing aspect is that the unsuspecting residents of Rohan Madhuban are unwittingly complicit in this environmental crime, contributing to the significant pollution of the river. This egregious act has prompted swift action from concerned parties, with Krunnal Gharre, representing the Aam Aadmi Party, and environmentalists lodging formal complaints with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB).......... Read More:show more

I am currently at home in Busia. This is... Busia Sewage treatment plant in Mauko Farmview Burumba ward that has been left to deteriorate over the years. Back then, when I was a young kid, this was a beautiful scenery. We used to come here and relax. We also took our village salads for a picnic here. South of the plant is a stream that pours down to river Suo with pours to river Nzoia then to the great Lake Victoria. This is a health hazard to my people. North of the plant Ruto is building affordable housing that will pour its sewer here. It is my request that the sewage plant be renovated and sewer treated. William Samoei Ruto, PhD angalia hii maneno.show more

This video reveals what appears to be sewage flowing... into water on Southend seafront. The footage was captured on Sunday. The area of darker coloured water was spotted by a man in an aircraft who labelled it “disgraceful”. Mark Hutley said: “I’ve never seen anything like it. It could be seen for miles.” It was spotted between Chalkwell beach and Westcliff beach. The apparent sewage spill is close to one of Anglian Water’s ‘storm overflow’ pipes that leads into the water from the land. Latest records indicate that it was active on Sunday 8 September and emptying into the area of the Thames Estuary for a period of time. Anglian Water have a permit from the Environment Agency to operate the storm overflow pipe, which specifies conditions for controlled sewage and stormwater spills during heavy rainfall. This is in order to prevent flooding in homes and businesses when the sewer network becomes overloaded with rainwater.show more

This is on the Ohio River in Cincinnati near... Route 8 You see the color of this water being dumped into the Ohio River? It’s pink…. It’s coming out of the Newport Pumping Station The City sometimes injects colored dye into drains and sewer to watch where it emerges to map flows and or study river dispersion This could be that, or this could be something else being dumps directly into the Ohio River…. The EPA should be checking this out to verifyshow more

This is as a result of Marginalization wallahi. Imagine... Building SEVEN massive dams for irrigation, fishing and hydropower before the River reaches entry to NFD at Tula wells in Isiolo, Garissa Town, Tana River County to Lamu County. What we (the hosting community of Majority of the river) get back in return? FLOODS caused by opening the gates of their dams downstream once they have enough water for the Year! Such historical marginalization by Jomo Kenyatta needs to be addressed.show more

An historic day, as the River Wye becomes the... first river in the UK to have its rights recognised by local authorities across its catchment. Hundreds of people gathered on the banks of the river to watch as representatives from Monmouthshire, Forest of Dean & Powys Councils, Herefordshire County Council, the Wye Valley National Landscape & Bannau Brycheiniog National Park signed the pledge recognising the rivers rights and then spoke about why they had done so what it would mean for the relationship of their organisation to the river. It went beyond legal formalities into something of a service of thanks & honour to the river, with poetry, a choir singing songs, & offerings to the river. It has been a real honour to witness & be part of the surging movement towards river rights & guardianship on the Wye. Four years ago I met & advised Herefordshire Councillor Elissa Swinglehurst, who wanted to put a voice of the river on the Wye Nutrient Management Board. A year ago I sat around a fire on the banks of the river with other Wye guardians & Earth lawyers as the idea of a charter was first mooted. To see it become a reality, & supported by 6 public bodies, in just a year is astonishing. Now, of course, comes the hard work of making those rights a reality. But given the hundreds of active river guardians, & increasing public pressure to protect & restore the river, if it can be done on any river, it will be done on the Wye.show more

Residents living around Masinga Dam have raised concerns over... what they say is severe contamination of the dam’s water, allegedly caused by industrial and sewage waste discharged upstream from Kirinyaga County. According to residents, the water has become unsafe for domestic use and is reportedly unsuitable even for livestock. They claim the contamination has already affected a significant section of the dam, extending from the Tana River Bridge along the Nairobi–Meru Road and downstream. Residents are calling on NEMA Kenya, KenGenKenya(whose officials are alleged to have allowed this to happen), and other relevant authorities to investigate the alleged pollution urgently, establish the source of the contamination, and take action to protect communities that depend on Masinga Dam for water.show more

Multiple credible sources suggest that at least 20-21 individuals... have lost their lives today during the ongoing protest in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The number of dead is likely to increase. In this video, one lifeless body can be seen on top of a police armored van. 🎥 local sourceshow more

When they say China thinks long term, this 👇... is a perfect example: we're in Dujiangyan in Sichuan province, a massive irrigation project constructed in 256 BC that's still very much in use today, making it literally the longest-serving infrastructure project in human history. The project was supervised by the Qin kingdom (before it became the Qin dynasty, the dynasty that first united the whole of China) and was about dividing the Mingjiang river in two and createb a new river to irrigate the Chengdu plain for agricultural purposes. To this day, that artificial river created from here is the main water supply for what's now the city of Chengdu and its surroundings!show more

The EA has allowed invasive species like Himalayan Balsam... to spread out of control, with no plan whatsoever to even contain this damaging plant, let alone eliminate it from our river. Every year that the plant is allowed to spread, the problem gets worse & harder to solve, with the rare marshes along the river now at seriously damaged & risking destruction. Local volunteers have stepped up to act where they have failed, organising small groups on WhatsApp to take responsibility for different sections of the river & destroy as many of the plants as possible before they set seed. Over this last summer alone, there have been dozens of events, where volunteers have walked & waded along the river to laboriously remove these plants. The EA has offered us no support whatsoever in this massive & important task.show more

Zimbabwe declared a state of emergency in its capital... city, Harare amid a deadly outbreak of the medieval disease, cholera. What you are seeing below is raw sewage flowing in the streets of Harare due to an unserviced old sewage system left by the colonial government. This is what happens when political leadership fails a country and focuses its energises on looting public funds and plundering the country’s natural resources. This level of total collapse is not only tragic, but it is now bringing diseases for Zimbabweans, yet their public health system is totally collapsed! The most painful thing is that part of Rhodesia’s propaganda predicted this, imagine working so hard to prove Ian Smith right. Yet you see the ruling political elites in designer suits and being driven in the latest black Mercedes cars yet sewage is flowing in the streets like this! For telling you this self evident truth, I will be called a Western puppet and whole trailer load of insults. The insults don’t matter in the face of this truth, like George Orwell said, “….perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”show more

STORY | Study traces shrinking of Yamuna over 225... years in Delhi with 1799 map, reports 89% drop in volume The map of a wider, freer Yamuna from 1799 has opened a window into the river's past, helping researchers reveal the toll exacted by time, human intervention and urbanisation over more than 200 years in Delhi in a first-of-its-kind study. The research found that Yamuna flowing through Delhi has narrowed by about 68 per cent, and its discharge – the volume of water flowing through it – has dropped by around 89 per cent since the late 18th century. The study, accessed by PTI, was carried out by researchers from the Department of Geology, University of Delhi, and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal. They reconstructed the river's past using an archival map prepared by Upjohn in 1799 and preserved in the National Archives of India, along with historical maps and modern satellite images. The findings have been published in the paper, 'Two Centuries of Hydrogeomorphic Changes: Width-Discharge Dynamics of the Urbanised Yamuna River in Delhi'. "People have talked about changes in the Yamuna River in the Delhi stretch, but no one has talked about the changes in its discharge in the stretch on this timescale," Professor Vimal Singh, one of the researchers, said. The researchers said the 1799 map captured the Yamuna before any barrages were built across the river, offering a rare glimpse of its natural state. They found that the average bankfull width – the width of the river when it is full but not overflowing its banks – has reduced from about 658 metres in 1799 to around 210 metres in 2024. Using this width, the researchers estimated that the river's discharge has fallen from about 30,000 cubic metres per second in 1799 to roughly 3,900 cubic metres per second in 2024. READ: (Reported by Varsha Sagi) Note: Visuals used for representational purposes only; they track changes in the shape of the Yamuna River in Delhi between 1985 and 2022show more

🧵 1/2 There was two very different situations tonight... in Epping. Hundreds of people gathered at the Bell Hotel to protest the migrant hotel in town, one that has seen numerous incidents against local women and children. THIS WAS PEACEFUL AND FULL OF ELDERLY, OF WOMEN & KIDSshow more