Greenpeace accuses water companies of using nature 'as a toilet', as it publishes investigation into the scale of raw sewage dumping near protected areas
The Non-governmental organisation WaterCAN has laid a criminal complaint against the City of Johannesburg, municipal manager Floyd Brink and former acting municipal manager Bryne Maduka in an attempt to ensure accountability over raw sewage flowing into rivers.
and he s alarmed by new evidence of sewage pollution. we have stand up paddleboarders out here every day, kayakers. we have rowers, we have wild swimmers. i m teaching my own kids to swim in this river in the knowledge that every once in a while human effluent is going to be poured in 500 metres upstream. it s just not good enough. our rivers are in the worst state of any nation in europe and that is a source, or should be a source, of national shame. water from the thames has been sampled here daily over a four week period, including throughout last week s henley royal regatta. volunteers were specially trained to conduct the tests using scientific equipment and methods and insist their evidence is irrefutable. if you can pour it into there, that would be brilliant. so we were actually testing for bacteria. so e.coli and enterococci, which are two bacteria which can cause a lot of harm to humans. and we found after a rain event, a huge surge in e.coli in the river.
his home backs onto the river thames and he s alarmed by new evidence of sewage pollution. we have stand up paddleboarders out here every day, kayakers. we have rowers, we have wild swimmers. i m teaching my own kids to swim in this river in the knowledge that every once in a while human effluent is going to be poured in 500 metres upstream. it s just not good enough. our rivers are in the worst state of any nation in europe and that is a source, or should be a source, of national shame. water from the thames has been sampled here daily over a four week period, including throughout last week s henley royal regatta. volunteers were specially trained to conduct the tests using scientific equipment and methods and insist their evidence is irrefutable. if you can pour it into there, that would be brilliant. so we were actually testing for bacteria.
SIR Steve Redgrave has criticised sewage discharging into the River Thames. A citizen science programme investigation run by River Action and the Henley co.