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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... show more

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Paul Powleslandvor 1 Monat

To add insult to injury, the person who discovered this environmental crime wasn’t the multi billion pound @EnvAgency, but a local pensioner who was one of the people the EA was threatening to jail for restoring a river without a permit.

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Terry Smithvor 1 Monat

That will be due to the excessive rainfall that has overwhelmed the system.

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colin smithvor 1 Monat

Can anyone explain to me how we are in the middle of drought and water shortages AND YET the Wierwood reservoir in Forest Row is full to the brim and has been for years because the pumps are broken and no one can be bothered to fix them. What a disgrace. Needs exposing !

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Natchorulesvor 1 Monat

This is truly absurd and the stuff of nightmares. We have lost over 40% of our river species, for ten years I've helped rescue swans and waterfowl from my local river covered in sewage and pollution or ill from it effect. Endless animals are suffering. All to maximise profit.

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Kathleen Tysonvor 1 Monat

Nationalise water now.

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janellabooks/ #voiceofthewronglyaccusedvor 1 Monat

People are falling ill all over the UK, from contaminated sea water/ beaches, from wild swimming , as you mention paddling, people take infants to spots like this, water companies could literally kill the very young, who would be up to their knees in what is meant for a toilet

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chriscsvor 1 Monat

Wtf is wrong with our country! When is enough a enough. Polluting our own rivers has to be the dumbest natural vandalism ever. All for a bit of extra profit. And still the government do fuck all about it. Unreal.

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Juliet Jeatervor 1 Monat

The water companies know they can get away with it. Nobody with any power prepared to stop them.

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jacqui yeolandvor 1 Monat

You probably know, but if I can point out this wouldnt be *quite so terrible if it were organic waste without the chemicals added. A dead sheep in our stream polluted it badly for months.. but that was organic and nature can cope a bit. Pharma/plastics make it just so much worse.

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Krumpovor 1 Monat

I recently noted a really strong smell of sulphur where Markfield Park meets the Lea, this weekend Pretty sure someone is dumping waste into the river, there

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branwen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇸vor 1 Monat

Must be due to all the rainfall recently🙄

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Antrim Coast Tom 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 Free Marwan Barghoutivor 1 Monat

Block the discharge pipes !

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Naomi Mottvor 1 Monat

It’ll be all the extra rain we’ve been having 😛

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Nathan Saichekvor 1 Monat

What, hypothetically, would be the consequences if one of those effluent pipes got thoroughly clogged?

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Martyvor 1 Monat

"Fiscal constraints" prevent fixing illegal outfalls. But not million-pound bonuses for executives. Thames Water: £19 billion in debt. Sewage in rivers. Children paddling in discharge. And the board gets bonuses. That's not fiscal constraint. That's fiscal choice. They chose the bonus over the outfall. Every time. BUILD UK water policy: no executive bonuses until discharge compliance reaches zero. Not reduced. Zero. You don't get a reward for running a company that poisons children's swimming spots. And mandatory real-time discharge monitoring on every outfall public data, publicly accessible. If sewage is entering a river, the people swimming in it should know before they get in, not after they get sick. Thames Water can't afford to fix the pipes but can afford to pay the people who broke them. That's not insolvency. That's priorities.

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GubsM - now also on blueskyvor 1 Monat

That will be due to the well known Rodding Monsoon they have experienced

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Justin Davies🙂vor 1 Monat

Fecal constraints?.

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west witch🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿vor 1 Monat

Absolutely vile, they should be in prison!

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Don Haynesvor 1 Monat

Totally amoral !

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Tiz🇺🇦vor 1 Monat

This is horrendous. The days of children being able to happily paddle or swim are long gone. Insane how this is allowed to continue

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Robin Murrayvor 1 Monat

ENOUGH

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cathy bertramvor 1 Monat

Privatisation feeds parasites. Killing the UK

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jolvor 1 Monat

FFS

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Robin Forestvor 1 Monat

Heartbreaking. Kids paddling in sewage while water companies pay out bonuses. We need proper infrastructure investment. 💚

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Neil Robertsonvor 1 Monat

@KateM45 But that can’t be true. They only release sewage when there is heavy rain with too much water to handle.

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Arya BiblioBrit 🇬🇧vor 1 Monat

Christ. Kids paddle there.

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EcologyHODLvor 1 Monat

It's all downstream of broken money. Incentives equal outcomes.

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Restore Britain NOWvor 1 Monat

Bastards!

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Undavor 1 Monat

That discolouration in the footage is exactly what an overwhelmed combined sewer looks like. Surface water shouldn't still be sharing that pipe with foul flow. SuDS separation on new development is the regulatory fix now, not an option.

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Paul Powleslandvor 1 Monat

Yes, all that rain from *checks notes*… the driest period on record has surely overwhelmed the system.

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Warrewarriorvor 1 Monat

@undaconsulting Intelligent flood risk management! I bet you'll be swamped with work when the rain comes! Let's hope it rains slowly so the baked ground has a chance to do its job unlike the @EnvAgency

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Undavor 1 Monat

@paulpowlesland @EnvAgency Actually the reverse: baked, cracked soil sheds water faster than it soaks it in. Hydrophobic ground after drought is a classic flash-flood trigger, not protection from it.

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Dandy Minglevor 1 Monat

Is the discharge from a CSO or a surface water outfall into which there’s been a misconnection? If it’s the latter the water company is not responsible, the property owner is and could face a fine of up to £50,000 and/or Imprisonment for up to 12 months

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Lady Tee of Hadriana 🐟 🇪🇺vor 1 Monat

@andyburnham @angelaeagle

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Jill Withersvor 1 Monat

Until we start jailing the top brass, nothing will change

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denis taylorvor 1 Monat

The upper echelons of 🇬🇧 society are riddled with corruption!

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Bellavitavor 1 Monat

Oh no! Not what families need in this heat! Poor little paddlers!

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Tom Hilton Balon D’Orvor 1 Monat

Despicable. Not that there is any justification for it in any aspect but why is there a discharge now? There’s no storm water so can’t be an overflow issue

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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!

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!

Arnaud Bertrand

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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.”

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.”

Hopewell Chin’ono

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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 2022

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 2022

Press Trust of India

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🧵 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 & KIDS

🧵 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 & KIDS

Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧

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