into rivers and seas. last year there were 800 untreated discharges every day on average, which has caused mounting public anger. the water companies have promised to spend £10 billion to put it right by modernising sewers, although it will mean higher bills for customers. our environment correspondentjonah fisher. for years, campaigners have complained about the amount of sewage that flows into our waterways and that profit has been put before the health of our rivers and beaches. england s water companies have always denied that. but today they came together to make an unprecedented apology. i am here on behalf of the water industry today to say sorry. we are sorry about the upset and the anger from the fact that there have been overspills of untreated sewage onto beaches and into rivers over the last few years. we are sorry that we did not act sooner. but we get it.
being pumped into the river thames. our environment correspondentjonah fisher has been given rare access inside the super sewer to find out how it s going to help. so there s the basket. ok, hanging from a crane. that is the only way to get into most of our shafts, now. we are in the centre of london at battersea and we are about to go 55 metres down into the ground to join the super sewer. the biggest and deepest tunnel that has ever been built in london. it s great to be on a bike because this project isjust so huge. the tunnel is vast. it stretches all the way across london, mainly under the thames. 15 miles, and the basic idea is that it is going to take the sewage and rainwater that
may slip when they are diagnosed that france may slip away or find it difficult to have may slip away or find it difficult to have a may slip away or find it difficult to have a conversation and i think that is to have a conversation and i think that is a to have a conversation and i think that is a problem from us as a nation that is a problem from us as a nation that that is a problem from us as a nation that historically we have been nation that historically we have been quite squeamish about talking about been quite squeamish about talking about the been quite squeamish about talking about the big c or bowel cancer in particular~ about the big c or bowel cancer in particular. but i think it s about having particular. but i think it s about having normalising. as particular. but i think it s about having normalising. particular. but i think it s about having normalising. as a. some campaigners having normalising. as a. some campaigners fear having normalisi
if the restrictions on women get more and more intense, i don t think this life is worth living. with each day that goes by the hopes they had are fading. yogita limaye, bbc news. people are being urged not to go into the water around poole harbour in dorset, after a leak from an oilfield pipeline. the equivilent of 200 barrels of reservoir fluid, which is 85% water and 15%oil, escaped into the sea. our environment correspondentjonah fisher is at the scene. jonah, how bad is it? well, at the moment the indications are it might not be too bad, that the scale and damage caused by this oil leak may be limited in scope. there have been bows out in poole harbour this morning. there have been helicopters flying overhead, and none of them have at this point reported seeing anything that could
temperature of 16.4 degrees celsius, 4.5 degrees higher than the previous record. it was a similar story in poland, where it hit 18.9 degrees, four degrees higher than the previous record forjanuary. and in the spanish city of bilbao, the temperature reached more than 25 degrees, 10 degrees higher than they ve ever seen at this time of year. contrast that with what america has been experiencing in recent days, freezing cold temperatures and a blanket of snow, with more severe weather on the way. if, as many suggest, this is down to climate change, then it seems that that can take many different forms. tim allman, bbc news. joining us now is our climate correspondentjonah fisher. hello to you. those are really extraordinary pictures at the beginning of that report, the md ski