Sir Jake Berry The River Irwell that flows through... your constituency is grossly polluted by routine sewage dumping by United Utilities. It is the 9th worst river in England and Wales with 2,385 sewage dumps in 2022 lasting 12,939 hours. But let’s focus on Easter eggs…show more

Which is the healthy river? Both clips were taken... yesterday. Both are rivers around Windermere, and both have septic tanks discharging into them. But one is used as a dumping ground for both treated and untreated sewage by United Utilities, while the other is primarily impacted by agriculture.show more

🚨 Breaking News: Record illegal sewage dumping 🚨 Our... latest report—produced with Prof. Peter Hammond of Windrush Against Sewage Pollution—has revealed 140 days with illegal sewage spilling from the six sites around Windermere in 2024 alone. You’ll hear United Utilities cry that the analysis is wrong—but they've failed to provide any evidence to disprove any of the illegal spills revealed in this report. The BBC asked them to explain why it was incorrect. They couldn’t—or wouldn’t—do it. The full report can be found by following the link belowshow 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

All cockle beds below millin creek near Picton point... in Pembrokeshire are dead. Millin is and has been under investigation by NRW for years and nothing has been done. Millin brook is probably the worst polluted brook that flows into the River Cleddaushow 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

⚠️ WARNING: Not one to watch while eating. ⚠️... This is what treated sewage looks like when it’s discharged in the Lake District. You’re looking at the sewage pipe from Langdale Wastewater Treatment Works, where it enters the River Brathay. This site is allowed to discharge up to 1.1 million litres a day of this ‘treated’ sewage. I know I wouldn’t want to swallow this while out for a swim — would you? This was filmed today at around 17:25. Happy Easter from United Utilities.show 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

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

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

While I was striking in Windermere yesterday, demanding an... end to sewage pollution, guess what was happening in Ambleside? Ambleside wastewater treatment works was discharging untreated sewage into the River Rothay. This goes into Englands largest lake which sits within a national park and UNESCO world heritage site. This cloudy concoction is full of everything from bacteria, viruses, parasites, to phosphorus. The water industry insists this is 95% freshwater, which, as you can see, is clearly not true. How much was released from this spill? We don’t know, as United Utilities does not collect volumetric data. We need an end to all treated and untreated sewage discharged into Windermere. More can be found here ⬇️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

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

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

Today I joined Right to Roam and 400 people... today in a mass swim trespass at Kinder Reservoir in the Peak District. The event was in commemoration of the anniversary of the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass, but with a very modern & pressing issue of access. How can it be that United Utilities can prevent us from swimming in the rivers & lakes that we are legally allowed to swim in by pouring sewage in them, but then forbid us from swimming in ‘their’ reservoir (which was given to them at privatisation) instead? So, with hundreds of others, I ignored the United Utilities security guard & had a cold but thrilling trespass swim in the sunshine among the rolling green hills of the Peak District, to demand the right to swim.show more

Just look at this river flowing all the way... from Tibet into India through Nelong Valley on the Indo-China border. The water here is unbelievably crystal clear you can literally see right to the bottom with the naked eye. And then, as it flows into India and becomes part of the Ganga River, we all know how drastically it changes. That contrast says everything. The purity here exists because access is strictly controlled only a few people with special permits are allowed. It’s a stark reminder that we, not the river, are responsible for what it becomes downstream! 😍👌🏻show more

If you’re eating your breakfast, look away This site... has been a major focus of our campaign to end sewage pollution in Windermere. Because of our sustained pressure: - The EA is reviewing a permit that has remained unchanged since 1989 - Tankering at the site has increased by 171% - The EA is now attending regularly to check compliance, after almost a decade of absence - The water company is now investing to improve discharge standards, after we highlighted that the treatment process was identical to what was in place in 1978 But this still does not protect England’s largest lake. The only way to save Windermere is to stop the sewage once and for all. Final video filmed on 15 February 2023.show more

🇦🇪 Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, United Arab... Emirates ☮️ Located on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi and designed by Sir David Adjaye, the Abrahamic Family House is a modern peace complex that represents interfaith equality, tolerance, and the culture of coexistence through the mosque, church, and synagogue it houses.show more